The court of the Judicial Magistrate here on Saturday rejected the bail application of Pradeep Sangwan, a Haryana (Sonipat) native and son of ex-MP Kishan Singh Sangwan, who is an accused in a rape case.

Without surrendering himself in the court, Sangwan had filed a bail application in the court of judicial magistrate-III Simranjeet Kaur. The court found his application as incomplete and rejected it. Pradeep Sangwan, who got exemption for his police arrest for 15 days by the Supreme Court recently, had appeared in the lower court for seeking anticipatory bail in Dehradun on Saturday.

Earlier, Supreme Court had given Sangwan exemption of police arrest for 15 days with the direction to file his bail application in the lower court within three days.

The woman complainant had secured bail from the district court on Friday. The SIT had earlier arrested the woman complaint from her Dehradun home after police collected enough evidence to indict her. She had bought land for Rs 17 lakh at Banjarawala in Dehradun using the money purportedly paid to her by the accused as a ‘compromise’. Police had also recovered Rs 6 lakh unaccounted cash from her home.

DGP BS Sidhu said that the SIT had collected all the relevant information and recently has filed a chargesheet against the accused in the lower court. Police have done good work and case is going on right direction, he added.

It will be recalled that after the Uttarakhand High Court rejected his bail application, Pradeep Sangwan had approached the Supreme Court seeking exemption from arrest by the police for alleged rape but Supreme Court recently refused to give further stay for his police arrest recently.

Moreover, Sangwan’s brother-in-law Ajay Mann, who knew the victim and had allegedly made a deal with her to settle the case, had also approached the Uttarakhand High Court seeking exemption from arrest, but his application was also rejected. He is still absconding.

It should be mentioned here that based on victim’s complaint, a case under Sections 376 (2), 323, 506 and 66 IT Act was registered in the Rajpur Police Station on April 18, 2014. The victim had already recorded her statement before the magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC on April 22. The victim who was an employee at Joyland water park, near Sahastradhara owned by Pradeep Sangwan, had alleged that she was sexually exploited by Pradeep at a hotel in Mussoorie and Rajpur.