Kanpur:The police have booked 59 gangster accused for procuring bails on forged documents and 14 fraudsters who arranged the bails.
The police said the fraudsters had arranged over 200 such bails in the past few years.
According to SP West Dr Anil Kumar, things came to fore after a confidential investigation was carried out and a report of the same was dispatched to the gangster court as maximum number of bails were procured by gangster accused.
He further elaborated that of the total 14 fraudsters, seven hail from Shivdeen Ka Purwa village in Bithoor, two from Parmiyapurwa area of Nawabganj and two from Pihani area of Billhaur, besides one other from Kailai village of Kanpur Dehat.
“Also, it came to fore that many among the fraudsters had involved themselves in procuring bails of nearly half-a-dozen accused. They used to prepare fabricated bail bonds to get accused persons released on bail. The fraudsters have been identified as Arvind, Ramesh, Shailesh, Amar, Brij Kishore, Manoj Kumar, Ram Saran, Santosh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Pramod, Mahesh, Nathhu and Prakash,” he said
“An FIR was lodged under relevant sections of IPC following a complaint by clerk of gangster court Kiran Shankar Ghosh on Wednesday against 73 persons including 59 gangster accused and 14 fraudsters. Subsequently, an investigation was launched to nail down gangster accused, who procured bail and fraudsters who forged documents and arranged their bail,” he added.
Bail means procurement of release from jail of a person awaiting trial or an appeal, by making deposition of security to ensure his submission at the required time to legal authority.
The monetary value of the security, known as the bail bond, is set by the court having jurisdiction over the undertrial/prisoner. Failure of the person released on bail to surrender himself at the appointed time results in forfeiture of the security.