Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Meditrina Hospital director Dr Sameer Paltewar in a fraud case lodged against him by another director Ganesh Chakkarwar. The petitioner through counsels — Avinash and Akash Gupta —had applied for anticipatory bail in case of arrest by Sitabuldi Police Station where the complaint was lodged. Dr Paltewar was directed to attend the police station every Sunday from 12 noon to 2pm till the chargesheet filing and to cooperate with the investigations. He was also told not to leave the country.
The petitioner was booked under Sections 406, 409, 420, 465, 467, 268, 471 of IPC 66 (C) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. On Chakkarwar’s complaint, an offence was registered against Dr Paltewar in 2019 for alleged irregularities in the state government’s Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (MJPJAY). Subsequently, the Maharashtra government had removed the hospital from the panel list of MJPJAY.