HC grants interim protection from arrest to hair specialist

The Bombay High Court has granted interim protection from arrest till March 7 to city-based hair specialist Vivek Nigam in an alleged cheating case filed against him by another co-professional Anjali Shere here.
Justice Sadhana Jadhav yesterday granted Nigam interim anticipatory bail to Nigam, an expert in stem cell hair transplant, and directed the police to file their reply to the bail plea.
Nigam had approached High Court after his anticipatory bail application was rejected by the sessions court.
Nigam's counsel Mahesh Jethmalani argued that the cheating case was filed due to professional rivalry.
Shere, also a hair specialist, had last year filed cheating complaint with the Versova police alleging that Nigam had poached her clients and their photographs to further his business. An FIR was registered under sections 406, 420, 506, 507, 509 r/w 34 of the IPC and 33(2), 36 (2) of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act.

Shere has claimed that she had started her practice in 2004 as a hair transplant specialist in Andheri. Nigam started his practise later and poached upon his clients.
However, Jethmalani argued that it was Shere who had poached Nigam's clients. According to Nigam, he had asked Shere to join his clinic. Although she accepted, she never joined and started giving advertisements identical to that of Nigam.