The Supreme Court in a special sitting on Saturday granted interim bail to former director of real estate company Amrapali Group, Anil Sharma, for two weeks on medical grounds, directing him to surrender after the expiry of the same.
The Apex Court further directed Sharma to approach the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court for regular bail in the case. Sharma is facing around 30 cases and got bail in six cases and 24 cases pending against him for cheating the home buyers. The top court clarified that it has not given bail to the accused, but has only extended the interim protection for two weeks citing Sharma’s medical condiction and directed him to appear before trial court to surrender and apply for bail.
In August this year, the Supreme Court had granted interim bail to Sharma for eight weeks on medical grounds, which was today extended for two more weeks. “The petitioner shall surrender on or before Nov 7 before CMM East Karkardooma and shall be taken in custody in immediately ….. Operation on left eye be conducted as per medical advice ... Petitioner is being treated as Shankar Netralaya Chennai and can have operation there if so advised,” said the Bench headed by Chief Justice UU Lalit.
“Chief Financial Officer Chander Prakash Wadhwa liberty to file fresh bail application on the medical grounds, or challenge the earlier HC order refusing bail,” said the Bench. However the bench refused to grant Wadhwa bail.
The top court also extended the interim bail of another former director of Amrapali Group, Shiva Priya, in the same case.
He was directed to surrender after Diwali. Amrapali home buyers had moved theapex court in 2017 seeking various reliefs including compensation and refund of their money for delayed possession of flats. Matter adjourned to be taken up on Oct 31.