NEW DELHI, Oct 23: The brother of an Aam Aadmi Party election candidate was today denied bail by a Delhi court in the case of kidnapping of one of the accused in the IPL spot- fixing scandal.
District judge SK Sarvaria rejected the bail plea of Chakit Ravi, the elder brother of AAP’s candidate for the Karol Bagh Assembly seat, Vishesh Ravi, upon the consideration that the investigation in the case was at a preliminary stage.
IPL spot-fixing accused Ritesh Bansal had alleged that he was kidnapped by four persons, including Chakit.
AP Singh, the counsel for Chakit, said he would now move Delhi High Court for bail.
According to police, Ritesh, the owner of a fledging construction business in central Delhi, was allegedly picked up at gun point by one of his business associates along with Chakit on August 25.
The kidnappers had allegedly demanded Rs 30 lakh ransom for his release.
Chakit was nabbed along with another person hours after Ritesh’s kidnapping. Two of their accomplices are still absconding, police said.
“Chakit was helping Ritesh in mediation of some business issues,” the FIR said.
Chakit has been booked under various sections of the IPC for kidnapping and also under the provisions of the Arms Act.
Chakit, however, had claimed that he was a “victim of a political conspiracy to defame his family as his younger brother is an election candidate and the complaint was lodged just when his name was announced for contesting the polls”.
“The complaint filed by Ritesh is false as a similar complaint was filed by him against somebody else in 2011 in which he had given a similar version of kidnapping before later on accepting money to make a compromise,” Chakit had said.
Chakit’s counsel said that Ritesh “himself was an accused in a case registered in Mumbai in the IPL spot-fixing scandal and during the period in which he claims he was picked up by my client, he was appearing before a Mumbai court”. (PTI)
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