Healing Survey Rip-off: Srinagar Courtroom grants bail to accused

Srinagar Courtroom on Tuesday granted bail to one of many accused Vinoth John Kennedy in alleged multi-crore fraud by Healing Survey Personal Restricted.

After listening to prosecution and defence counsels advocate Aamir Masoodi and advocate Iqra Nazir, the Courtroom of Forest Justice of the Peace, Srinagar, presided over by Feroz Ahmad Khan, noticed that charge-sheet within the case has been filed by the Police which signifies that the investigation of the case is full and custody of accused for private interrogation is just not required.

Courtroom additional noticed that object of bail is to safe the looks of the accused individual at his trial by affordable quantity of bail.

“The thing of bail is neither punitive nor preventive. Deprivation of liberty should be thought of a punishment except it may be required to make sure that an accused individual will stand his trial when known as upon,” Courtroom stated.

Courtroom noticed that accused has been in custody for a interval of greater than three months, weighs within the thoughts of this courtroom and a steadiness between the rights of the accused as to his liberty and bigger public curiosity of the society needs to be struck.

“Accordingly, the applying for grant of bail is allowed,” Courtroom stated.

Earlier, whereas referring to numerous provisions of legislation and Supreme Courtroom judgments, defence counsel Advocate Aamir Masoodi submitted that severity of punishment may be very much less and punitive clause doesn’t prescribe punishment past seven years within the current case.

“My consumer is just not required for custodial interrogation as he’s lodged in judicial custody now,” he added.

On 31 December 2023, J&Ok Police stated that it recognized six people linked to the fraudulent actions of ‘Healing Survey Personal Restricted, and arrested one individual from Tamil Nadu.

The accused firm is alleged to have duped a whole bunch of individuals throughout Jammu and Kashmir in lieu of offering sustained month-to-month revenue after paying registration payment and collaborating in on-line surveys. [KNT]