Additional sessions judge Dharmesh Sharma granted bail to Chandila, Yadav and Kumar on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 each with one surety of like amount, while the bail pleas of alleged bookies Ramesh Vyas, Ashwani Agarwal, Sunil Bhatia, Firoz Farid Ansari and Jitender Kumar Jain were dismissed by the court.
The court said though Chandila was prima facie alleged to be a "key fixer", there was no credible evidence against him regarding his knowledge about a nexus with organized crime syndicates.
The court pulled up the Delhi police for lack of coordination in getting incriminating evidence from the material seized by other probe agencies, including the Mumbai Police. It directed Delhi police commissioner to "re-examine" the entire case and take appropriate steps to unearth more evidence and ensure "absolute fairness in the further investigation" in the case. "And in doing so, active cooperation be sought from Mumbai Police, DRI and other investigating agencies," it said.
While granting bail to Yadav and Kumar, the court said Yadav was the "weakest link" in the entire scandal and Kumar appeared to be a "punter".
The court, however, noted that some of the arrested accused persons were having "nexus" with the organised crime syndicate which bring the case under the stringent MCOCA.
"In the present case, in the light of incriminating evidence that some of the accused persons named above were having direct link or nexus with organised crime syndicate, facilitating and running betting racket, that would bring the case within the fold of section 2 (1) (e) read with section 3 of MCOCA," it said.
The order assumes significance as a trial court earlier on June 10 had granted bail to suspended cricketers S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and other accused in the case and had ticked off special cell of Delhi police for slapping stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) on them.
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