Today Gujarat High Court granted bail to Surat-based diamond merchant Afroz Fatta in connection with an alleged case of forgery and cheating filed against him by Surat Police. Justice J B Pardiwala,Gujarat High Court granted bail to Afroz Fatta in the case investigaed by Surat city crime branch, on solvency of Rs 5 lakh.Fatta will be in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Rs 5,000-crore Hawala scam. Fatta had moved High Court on January 30 after a Surat district court rejected his bail plea in December last year.
In his bail plea by Fatta stated that the prosecution agency Surat’s Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) had not provided a single witness in the charge sheet filed in October last year.The charge sheet did not mention that the applicant (Fatta) deposited a single rupee in any bank account nor any proof regarding his involvement in making bogus bills were shown in it, the application said. Bail was demanded bail on the ground that the probe in the case is over as the charge sheet has been filed in the case.
