{"id":309781,"date":"2019-02-25T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309781"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:38:06","slug":"agustawestland-case-delhi-court-grants-bail-to-rajeev-saxena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/agustawestland-case-delhi-court-grants-bail-to-rajeev-saxena\/","title":{"rendered":"AgustaWestland case: Delhi court grants bail to Rajeev Saxena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308688 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/saxena-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/saxena-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/saxena.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to Rajeev Saxena who was arrested in connection with the AgustaWestland money-laundering case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Special Judge Arvind Kumar directed Saxena to furnish a bail bond of Rs 5 lakh and two sureties of the like amount.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court said Saxena cannot leave the country without its permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It also stated that Saxena will not tamper with evidence and join investigation as and when called.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Saxena was granted interim bail till February 22. Later it was extended to February 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajeev Saxena was extradited to India in the wee hours of January 31 in connection with alleged scam in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper money laundering case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajeev Saxena, a director of two Dubai-based firms is one of the accused named in the charge sheet filed by ED in the AgustaWestland case. His wife Shivani Saxena have also been named by the agency in the charge sheet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to Rajeev Saxena who was arrested in connection with the AgustaWestland money-laundering case. Special Judge Arvind Kumar directed Saxena to furnish a bail bond of Rs 5 lakh and two sureties of the like amount. The court said Saxena cannot leave the country without its permission. It also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10351,3394,10938],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309782,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309781\/revisions\/309782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}