A Delhi Court has granted bail to four men arrested for allegedly raping a US tourist in a five-star hotel here last year.
Additional Sessions Judge Anu Grover Baliga granted the relief to the accused, Vivek Srivastava, Aniruddha Singh, Omprakash and Maqsood, saying that they were not required for further investigation and no purpose would be served by keeping them in further custody. Srivastava was working in the hotel when the crime was allegedly committed.
The court, however, put several conditions on the accused, including that they would not leave the country without its permission. According to court sources, the accused had contended in their application that the investigation was complete, the charge sheet was already filed and that there was no chance that they would hamper the probe.
The police had on December 26 last year arrested the accused in connection with the alleged gangrape of the woman in April last year.
The US national arrived here in December last year to join the probe and recorded her statement before a judicial magistrate in which she reiterated that she was raped by five persons in the city hotel.