Two surrender to CBI court in RS horse trading case

Industrialist Pawan Kumar Dhoot and his associate Sunil Maheswari today surrendered to a special CBI court in the horse trading case during the Rajya Sabha elections last year.
Surrendering to the court of R K Choudhary, the duo moved a bail petition pleading that the sections slapped on them were bailable.
The court granted bail to them on the condition that each furnish Rs 25,000 bond as surety.
On June 4, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had filed chargesheet against Dhoot, Maheswari, Industrialist R K Agarwal, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MLA Sita Soren and her father B Majhi and one Rajendra Mandal in the horse trading case.

Agarwal and Dhoot had contested as independents in the scrapped elections held for two RS seats in April last year. The chargesheet had accused Dhoot of alluring some MLAs with money if they cast vote in his favour.
It had also accused the JMM MLA of taking Rs 1.5 crore from the other independent candidate, R K Agarwal, in lieu of casting her vote in his favour in the scraped 2012 RS elections and that her father allegedly had taken one crore rupees out of the booty before leaving home in Odisha.
Agarwal, who is the president of Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is in judicial custody from May 14.

After countermanding the RS polls for two seats in April last year following the seizure of Rs 2.15 crore from a car and the police alleging that it belonged to Agarwal's relative, the ECI conducted the polling afresh a month later.