HC grants 2-week interim bail to accused in MLA shootout case

The Delhi High Court today granted two weeks interim bail to a management student arrested for allegedly shooting at Indian National Lok Dal MLA.
Justice Hima Kohli allowed 28-year-old Vikas Dagar to walk out of jail while allowing his plea for interim relief, sought on the ground that there is "no one in his family to look after his wife", admitted in hospital due to dengue.
The court, meanwhile, directed Dagar to furnish a bail of Rs 20,000 with two sureties of Rs 10,000 each of the like amount.
However, it made clear to his counsel that the sureties should be from the accused family or his close relatives.

"It has been verified from the report that she (Dagar's wife) has been admitted in a private hospital last evening," the judge noted, while allowing the plea.
In June this year, four persons were arrested for attack on Najafgarh MLA Bharat Singh.

Police had said that the accused Dagar planned the murder as he feared a backlash from the MLA, who he had slapped for humiliating his relatives in June last year.
On June 1, 2013 a Special Cell team had arrested the four accused from Kishangarh area when they came there to collect money for escaping to Rajasthan.
Dagar was arrested along with Kuldeep Mittal (26) and Sumeet Singh (28) of his village and Virender Sehrawat alias Bhola (23) of Deenpur area.

Policemen had recovered two bikes used in the attack, two .30 bore pistols, one .38 revolver, 30 cartridges, two magazines and two empty shells from them.