The journalist who was Tuesday arrested amid a probe in a Central Items and Providers Tax (CGST) fraud case and was remanded to police custody by a Justice of the Peace courtroom, moved the Gujarat Excessive Courtroom on Friday difficult the order whereas terming it “politically motivated”.
Mahesh Langa, the Gujarat correspondent and senior assistant editor at The Hindu, was arrested after 13 companies and their proprietors had been booked for an alleged enter tax credit score (ITC) fraud, based mostly on a grievance filed by the Directorate Normal of GST Intelligence (DGGI).
Langa, in his plea, sought to quash the remand order handed by the Further Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace on Wednesday. The courtroom granted 10 days’ remand to the Detection of Crime Department (DCB).
The petition, filed on Thursday, was taken up for listening to on Friday earlier than the courtroom of Justice Sandeep Bhatt.The courtroom requested the petitioner’s advocate to serve a duplicate of the plea to the general public prosecutor’s workplace and deferred the matter for listening to on October 14. The courtroom additionally requested the assistant public prosecutor to get directions from the state authorities by that date.
Langa, who was represented by senior advocate Jal Unwala, said in his petition that there was “no software of thoughts whereas granting the police 10 days’ remand of Langa, who’s a good journalist who will not be remotely linked to DA Enterprise”.
The petitioner additionally argued within the petition that it’s “properly settled regulation that remand can’t be permitted for documentary proof which is already within the possession of the officers for the reason that FIR is filed nearly 18 months after investigating, doing information evaluation and examination of returns as per their very own allegation/assertion.”
The petition additionally said that Langa’s arrest “is politically motivated and is barely accomplished to guarantee that the petitioner stays behind bars and doesn’t pursue his journalistic actions.”
Aside from Langa, the DCB has additionally acquired 10-day custody of three different accused who had been arrested with him on Tuesday.
Langa will not be named within the FIR.
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