A Delhi court on Monday remanded former Managing Director and CEO of National Stock Exchange (NSE) Chitra Ramakrishna in 14-day judicial custody in connection with the co-location scam case.
Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal ordered that Ramakrishna be physically produced before the court on March 28 and rejected her counsel’s request for home-cooked food in jail.
Turning down her request for certain facilities in jail, the court said, “VIP prisoners want everything. Every prisoner is the same. She does not have to be treated differently because of what she has been.”
However, the court allowed the request made by Ramakrishna’s lawyer for spectacles, prayer books, including Hanuman Chalisa and medicines inside the jail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) produced the accused before the court upon the expiry of her 7-day custody and urged the court to remand her in judicial custody. The CBI counsel said the investigation in the case was going on and Ramakrishna was evasive and uncooperative as well as a highly influential person.
“Have you found if she is the mastermind or is there a puppet master,” the court questioned. The CBI counsel said that it was “premature to say” and stated that the accused has been confronted with various people.
