Suspended IAS couple Arvind and Tinu Joshi, who are accused in a case of assets disproportionate to their sources of income, again failed to appear in the district court on Tuesday.
The hearing in the case was scheduled in the court under Special Judge VK Dwivedi. Instead of Joshi couple, Arvind’s parents did appear in the court and told that both Arvind and Tinu could not reach due to some unavoidable reasons, but they would certainly remain present on March 22.
During the hearing, Arvind’s father HM Joshi and mother Nirmala applied for bail and they were granted bail on the bonds of Rs2 lakh each.
Notably, the lokayukta police had submitted challan in the case on March 1 and on March 6, bail applications were submitted by all the four accused, Arvind, Tinu, HM Joshi and Nirmala Joshi. Justice VK Dwivedi had fixed March 11 as the date of hearing on the bail pleas and asked all the fourt to remain present in the court personally.
In the challan submitted by the lokayukta police in the court, it was mentioned that the income of the Joshi couple with known sources of income was Rs1.32 crore, but they spent Rs43.20 crore.
The lokayukta police during investigation found that the couple had possession of Rs41.87 crore assets that were disproportionate to their income.
The challan submitted by the lokayukta police was in 6,600 pages and 18 persons are accused in the case.
On February 4, 2010, the Income Tax department had raided the premises of Joshi couple and exposed their assets and later, on the report received from the IT department, the lokayukta police had registered a case against them.