New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Monday (May 17) remanded businessman Navneet Kalra to 3-day police custody in the case associated to black marketing of oxygen concentrators.
The Delhi police had sought 5 days’ custody from the court to interrogate Kalra, who was arrested on Sunday evening.
Kalra has been accused of hoarding oxygen concentrators in three eating places in South Delhi.
The businessman was on the run for over per week because the seizure of greater than 500 oxygen concentrators.
The district court had rejected Kalra’s anticipatory bail plea on May 13. It had famous that the allegations had been critical and custodial interrogation was required to “unearth the entire conspiracy”.
Kalra had earlier moved the Delhi High Court, which additionally declined to grant him interim safety from arrest in the case.
The case was transferred to the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch. The police claimed that the concentrators had been imported from China and being offered at an exorbitant value of Rs 50,000 to Rs 70,000 a bit as towards its value of Rs 16,000 to Rs 22,000.
On May 5, a case was registered towards Kalra beneath sections 420 (dishonest), 188 (disobedience to order promulgated by public servant), 120B (prison conspiracy) and 34 (widespread intention) of the Indian Penal Code as additionally beneath the provisions of the Essential Commodities Act and the Epidemic Diseases Act.
