NIA court rejects bail plea of businessman arrested in 2019 Gadchiroli attack case

MUMBAI: A special NIA court recently rejected the bail plea of a businessman, accused of passing on information about vehicular movements of the Quick Response Team (QRT) personnel, 15 of whom were subsequently killed along with a civilian in an attack by Naxals under a small bridge near Jambhulkheda village in Gadchiroli district in May 2019. The accused Kailash Ramchandani (34) has also been accused of supplying the alleged Naxalites the electric items required for the blast.
The court held that it cannot be said that the accused was not the active member of “terrorist organisation”.
“After having analyzed the documents and the statements forming part of the charge sheet in my considered opinion, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the accusations made against the applicant (Ramchandani) are prima facie true and therefore it cannot be said that the applicant has made out the case for grant of bail,” the court said.
In his bail plea, the accused said that he was a social worker and had been falsely implicated. He said he was involved in the electronics business. According to him, his name does not appear in the FIR and under the garb of an inquiry he was arrested on June 29, 2019. The accused further claim that he has been implicated in solely on the basis that he was acquainted with co-accused Parasram to whom he had made a phone call on the date of incident.
As far as the allegations in respect of seizure of pieces of electric wire from the spot of incident are concerned, Ramchandani submitted that if he had sold some wires to his customers that were subsequently misused, he cannot be held responsible. He denied being part of the conspiracy meetings.