Industrialist P K Dhoot gets relief on arrest warrants

The Jharkhand High Court today stayed the arrest order issued by a lower court against industrialist Pawan Kumar Dhoot, who is an accused in the horse-trading charges during 2012 Rajya Sabha elections.
The single bench of Justice R R Prasad granted the interim relief to Dhoot till April 30 and would hear the matter on May 1.
Dhoot, who was in the fray as an Independent in the countermanded Raya Sabha elections last year, moved the high court after a special CBI court issued arrest warrants against him on April 15.
The CBI is probing the horse-trading allegations after Rs 2.15 crore was seized from a car in Ranchi on Rajya Sabha election polling day.

The car allegedly belonged to the relative of one of the two Independent candidates. The other Independent candidate in the fray was R K Agarwal.
The Election Commission of India had cancelled that elections and held another to elect candidates for the two Rajya Sabha seats. Both Agarwal and Dhoot did not contest the election which was held after the cancellation of the first one.