Former Delhi University VC Deepak Pental has sought dismissal of a professor's plea seeking quashing of a magisterial court order granting him bail in a case of alleged plagiarism, cheating and forgery in the Delhi High Court.
Justice Sunil Gaur was informed that the trial court judge was "competent enough to hear and adjudicate matter pertaining to the grant of bail to Pental".
"The plea filed by DU Professor P Pardha Saradhi deserves to be dismissed in limine with exemplary costs being awarded to the respondent.2 (Pental) for agony being faced by these frivolous and vexatious litigations," the affidavit filed by Pental said.
His response came in the backdrop of the notice issued to him on Saradhi's plea alleging that the magisterial court has "completely failed to apply the correct proposition of law with respect to granting of bail to accused Pental for an offence which is a session triable" and is further punishable with life imprisonment.
Refuting Saradhi's claim, Pental in his affidavit stated that Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, who has granted him bail, "eventually appreciated the facts as well as the law governing granting of bail as also committal of matters to the court of Sessions and has passed the order in that behalf".
Saradhi, a professor of Environmental Studies in DU who had accused Pental and his student KVSK Prasad of plagiarising his paper on biotechnology and publishing it as their own, has sought quashing of November 25 last year order of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate granting bail to Pental.
Pental, who challenged the trial court's summons issued to him on November 18, 2013, was granted interim bail on November 25, last year by the lower court and the High Court.
