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Time of India
13-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
CBI court grants bail to NCLT deputy registrar
Mumbai: A special CBI court on Friday granted bail to arrested National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) deputy registrar Charan Pratap Singh, in connection with a bribery case. He was arrested on May 29. Singh moved a bail plea through advocate Shalabh Saxena, submitting that during searches at his homes, the total cash found was merely Rs 22,000. "The accused owns no property in Mumbai and is living in shared accommodation in an 8x10 chawl with a common bathroom and toilet," the plea submitted through advocate Shalabh Saxena Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .
News18
13-06-2025
- News18
NCLT Mumbai bench deputy registrar gets bail in bribery case
Last Updated: Mumbai, Jun 13 (PTI) A special court on Friday granted bail to the deputy registrar of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Mumbai bench in a bribery case. Deputy registrar Charan Pratap Singh, along with another accused, was arrested last month. Singh's bail plea was allowed by special CBI judge AV Kharkar. The detailed order was not available yet. The accused, through his lawyer Shalabh Saxena, sought bail saying there is no direct evidence against him. The CBI on May 14 registered the case against Singh on the complaint of a hotel owner who was having an ownership dispute with his brothers. The matter pertaining to the ownership dispute was filed before the NCLT Mumbai Court number IV on November 2, 2020, and has since been pending. It has been alleged that on May 11, Singh demanded Rs 3.50 lakh from the complainant for helping him in the matter by using his contacts in NCLT, Mumbai, and getting the matter settled in his favour. Later, the accused agreed to accept Rs 3 lakh as bribe. In a trap, a man was caught red-handed while accepting the amount on behalf of Singh, as per the CBI. PTI AVI BNM
Indian Express
13-06-2025
- Indian Express
Mumbai court grants bail to NCLT deputy registrar booked by CBI for accepting Rs 3 lakh bribe
A special court on Friday granted bail to the deputy registrar of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Mumbai bench, who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 3 lakh from a person for getting a case at NCLT settled in his favour. The central agency had on May 29 arrested deputy registrar Charan Pratap Singh and another person, Karsan Ahir, after they were caught by the CBI officials while allegedly accepting the bribe. The CBI registered a case on May 14 on the allegations of the complainant, a hotel owner. As per CBI, the said complainant was involved in a dispute with his brothers, regarding the ownership of the said hotel and frauds done by his brother and his associates. Singh, through Advocate Shalabh Kunwar Saxena, had argued that the allegations against him were vague and lacked concrete evidence and he shall be released on bail. The special court on Friday allowed bail application of Charan Pratap Singh on executing a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh along with surety and directed him to appear in CBI's office twice every week till chargesheet is filed in the case. The special Judge A V Kharkar, among other bail conditions, also asked Singh to cooperate with the investigation officer and that he shall not leave Mumbai and Thane district without obtaining prior permission from the special court. He is asked to attend every date of trial in the court. The court added that Singh shall not tamper with the evidence and shall not directly or indirectly threaten or induce any person acquainted with the facts of the case to dissuade him or her from disclosing such facts from court or probing agency. The judge also directed Singh to submit details related to his residence along with contact details of two relatives/acquaintances residing in Mumbai.
Time of India
09-06-2025
- Time of India
NCLT graft: CBI gets 1-day custody of dy registrar
Mumbai: Observing that there are sufficient grounds to remand the accused to CBI custody, a special court on Monday granted the investigating agency a day's custody of arrested National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) deputy registrar, Charan Pratap Singh. "The accused was arrested on May 29…. The police custody was rejected at that time. Thereafter statements of the witnesses were recorded which shows involvement of the accused. The prosecution wants to conduct further probe on the basis of the new facts," special judge AV Kharkar said. Last week, the CBI said it was expanding its probe into the Rs 3 lakh bribe case as evidence suggests more senior officials may be involved. The CBI informed the special court that "the accused is involved in a corruption racket which may lead to a bigger conspiracy of corrupt practices at NCLT." A court officer allegedly got Rs 50,000 as a share from Singh to influence an NCLT member's decision. A secretary of the accused stayed at the complainant's Lonavala hotel with her family without paying a Rs 30,000 bill which Singh adjusted by reducing the bribe demand. A dispute between siblings over a family-owned hotel in Lonavla is pending before NCLT. One of the brothers filed a case, stating Singh had demanded a bribe to influence proceedings in his favour.
India Today
05-06-2025
- India Today
CBI seeks custody of law tribunal official, aide to probe Rs 3-lakh bribery case
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought five days of custody of Charan Pratap Singh, deputy registrar of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Mumbai bench, and his aide Karsan Ganesh Ahir, both of whom are currently in judicial and Ahir were arrested last month and produced in court on May 29 for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 3 lakh from a businessman to help favourably settle an ownership dispute involving a well-known hotel in court had earlier remanded the two to judicial custody till June 11, saying that the bribe amount and mobile handsets had already been recovered. However, the CBI told the court that further investigation had revealed that during a conversation with the complainant on May 15, Singh had informed him that a portion of the bribe would be shared with NCLT staff from his own pocket to settle the agency also alleged that on May 16, Singh handed over Rs 50,000 to Pradeep Kumar Nagarale, a Court Officer at NCLT Mumbai, as a share of the bribe to influence an NCLT Board Member in favour of the complainant. Incriminating WhatsApp messages exchanged between Singh and Nagarale were allegedly deleted from their mobile CBI said it needed time for a custodial interrogation of Singh to investigate the nature of the conversation regarding the Rs 50,000 payment. The agency also said it plans to collect voice samples of the accused and confront them with each other and other CBI further stated that it could not complete the investigation within 24 hours of arresting Singh and Singh has filed a bail application through his lawyer SK Saxena, arguing that the "grounds of arrest" cited by the CBI were vague and lacked specific attribution of plea also stated that searches at Singh's residences in Lucknow and Mumbai did not yield any incriminating material and only Rs 22,000 in cash was Judge AV Kharkar directed Singh's counsel and Special Public Prosecutor Sandeep Singh, appearing for the CBI, to file responses to each other's applications. The court will hear the matter on June 9.
