Court allows demand for CCTV footage to prove charge against

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : May 31 2017 | 11:28 PM IST
A court in Mumbai today asked authorities to give a copy of CCTV footage to the two men who have alleged that former MLA Pankaj Bhujbal, an accused in a money laundering case, threatened them inside the court building.
The special court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases passed the order on an application filed by Amit Balraj and Sudhir Salaskar, both accused in the same case as Pankaj and his father, former state minister Chhagan Bhujbal.
Balraj and Salaskar, former employees of Bhujbal's Mumbai Education Trust, wanted CCTV footage of the corridor outside courtroom number 16 where the Bhujbals were produced on May 16.
They alleged that Bhujbals held a meeting with their business associates in the courtroom when the judge was not there. Further, they alleged, Pankaj (not arrested in the case yet) threatened them in the corridor.
The duo filed a complaint with the Colaba police who registered a non-cognisable offence for criminal intimidation.
Balraj and Salaskar had in February 2017 filed a plea seeking to become approvers in the case.
The court today directed that the department concerned should give a copy of CCTV recording dated May 16, 2017 from 11 am to 3pm "of the passage outside courtroom number 16" to the applicants.

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First Published: May 31 2017 | 11:28 PM IST

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