Agusta case: HC reserves order on Christian Michel’s bail plea
The Delhi high court on Friday reserved its verdict on a bail plea by British arms consultant Christian James Michel seeking bail in a money-laundering case linked to the AgustaWestland chopper deal amid strong opposition by the Enforcement Directorate. On February 19, the Supreme Court granted bail to Michel in a related AgustaWestland corruption case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, taking exception to the agency’s failure to begin the trial. Deciding his bail plea, a bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said, “This is the worst kind of incarceration where CBI has not completed trial despite filing two charge sheets and documents relied by you have not been given to him.” Michel will walk free if he is granted bail in the ED case as well. In his petition for bail, filed in the high court through advocate Aljio K Joseph before the high court, Michel contended he already spent six years in jail for the offence in which he could be awarded a maximum jail term of seven years, with the trial of the case yet to begin.
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