New Delhi: A Delhi Court today refused to grant any interim relief to businessman Navneet Kalra from arrest, for the second time in the alleged oxygen concentrator hoarding and black marketing case.
Additional Sessions Judge Sumit Dass put his anticipatory bail before the District and Sessions Judge which will now decide which court will hear his plea on Wednesday.
“Bail application placed before the District Judge South East at 10 am tomorrow; they will send it to the concerned court. There is no interim relief or any sort of protection to the accused yet,” the judge remarked.
The court was hearing the arguments on the issue of jurisdiction on the anticipatory bail petition filed by the businessman in connection with the seizure of oxygen concentrators from his upscale restaurants, including ‘Khan Chacha’ in Khan Market.
In a recent raid, more than 500 oxygen concentrators were recovered from 3 restaurants owned by Navneet Kalra and his farmhouse in south Delhi.
Four men were arrested during the raids. The oxygen concentrators had been imported from China by a private company.
Navneet Kalra has been on the run since the raids and his mobile phone has been switched off, according to the police.
On Saturday, the police transferred the case to the Crime Branch.
