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A Delhi tribunal has dismissed the bail plea of an Army officer, arrested successful a corruption lawsuit successful December past year, noting that helium held a important station for performing tasks intimately linked to the country's security, integrity and sovereignty.
Special Judge Gagandeep Singh was proceeding the bail plea of Lt Col. Deepak Kumar Sharma, who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly taking a bribe of ₹3 lakh from a Dubai-based company.
In an bid dated January 23, the tribunal took enactment of the prosecution's allegations that Sharma “was occupying a important station arsenic the lawman readying serviceman (international practice and exports) successful the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, and thus, was performing important tasks assigned to him”.
Underlining that the tasks assigned to Sharma “were intimately linked to the security, integrity and sovereignty of the nation”, the tribunal said the allegations against him were “quite serious”.
“In the said backdrop, the anticipation of the accused oregon applicant influencing the probe oregon the witnesses, including his seniors oregon colleagues, besides cannot beryllium ruled retired astatine this stage, erstwhile the probe of the lawsuit is astatine a nascent stage,” the tribunal said, dismissing his bail plea.
The CBI had registered the lawsuit against Sharma and his wife, Col. Kajal Bali, CO, 16 Infantry Division Ordnance Unit (DOU), Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan.
It was alleged that Sharma “habitually indulges successful corrupt and amerciable activities” successful transgression conspiracies with the representatives of assorted backstage companies dealing successful defence products manufacturing, export etc.
Sharma obtained bribes from companies successful speech for providing undue favours to them, the national bureau has alleged.
It has said that inputs were received astir a imaginable bribe outgo from a Dubai-based institution -- M/s DP World -- whose India operations were being managed from Bengaluru by Rajiv Yadav and Ravjit Singh.
The CBI has alleged that the duo were successful regular interaction with Sharma and that, successful furtherance of a conspiracy, had sought assistance from the accused for obtaining undue favours from assorted authorities departments.
In its reply filed earlier the court, the CBI has claimed that Sharma “entered into a transgression conspiracy with representatives of backstage companies dealing successful defence manufacturing, logistics and export by abusing his authoritative presumption to widen undue favours successful speech for amerciable gratification”.
Trashing Sharma’s arguments that helium had nary relation successful the approvals of the company’s consignments, the tribunal said it appeared against the grounds connected record.
“The assorted applications for judicial remand, arsenic good arsenic the lawsuit diaries, bespeak that the accused oregon applicant was precise overmuch progressive successful obtaining the approvals qua the proscription of defence export goods of M/s D P World to Armenia. He was the idiosyncratic acrophobic who utilized to person the coordination with different authorities, that is, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), successful this regard. The said grounds is inactive being scrutinised and the probe is astatine a nascent stage,” the tribunal said.
During the proceedings, CBI’s authoritative said the FIR was registered based connected accusation from a source, and pursuant to the said inputs, the premises of the accused were searched connected December 18, 2025, which led to the betterment of the delivered bribe magnitude of ₹3 lakh.
“Apart from that, unaccounted currency amounting to ₹2,23,74,550 (over 2.23 crore), on with different overseas currency and physics items, was besides recovered. Further, a currency magnitude of ₹10 lakh was recovered from the residential premises of Kajal Bali, woman of the accused,” the authoritative said.
