The Andhra Pradesh High Court today dismissed the petition filed by JM Financial Chairman and Investment Banker Nimesh Kampani seeking anticipatory bail in a case relating to default on payments to the depositors of Nagarjuna Finance. Kampani was non-executive director on the board of Nagarjuna Finance.
In his petition, Kampani stated that he had resigned from Nagarjuna Finance in 1999 and the company defaulted after he left. He agreed to pay Rs 1 crore as surety, surrender his passport and cooperate with the investigating agencies but wanted an assurance that he would not be handed over to the police for custodial interrogation. Kampani had moved the Supreme Court contesting the AP court's earlier ruling that dismissed his request for bail. This is the second time that the court had dismissed his plea for an anticipatory bail.