Provogue director's plea against two cops rejected

Even though the court rejected the intervention application, it allowed Chaturvedi to give his written arguments to the public prosecutor.

Both the policemen, retired police officer Madhukar Gatade, who was then senior police inspector and Subhash Chandra Kinjale, who was police inspector (crime) with airport police station, were arrested on August 2 and remanded in judicial custody for tampering with evidence in the case against Chaturvedi.

The CID had also filed a charge sheet against the duo on the same date.

Chaturvedi, who was arrested in 2005 after cocaine was found in his bathroom, got acquitted of all charges in 2009 for lack of evidence.

Chaturvedi had later filed a private complaint in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court against the policemen, who had "wrongly" booked him.