MP honeytrap: Bail plea of businessman rejected

New Delhi: A special court on Friday dismissed an anticipatory bail plea of a businessman, who allegedly helped a 40-year-old woman to honeytrap and blackmail BJP MP from Gujarat, K.C. Patel.  Special judge Hemani Malhotra rejected the application of Ajay Kumar alias Ajay Pal Chauhan, against whom the court has already issued a non-bailable warrant (NWB), saying it appeared that he was an “active participant in a well thought out and a pre-planned conspiracy with the accused woman in their quest to earn money through illegal means.”

The court noted that despite being asked to join the investigation, Kumar has not joined the probe and he is evading execution of NBW. “I do not deem it fit to grant anticipatory bail. The present anticipatory bail application is accordingly rejected,” the judge said.

According to the prosecution, the woman had allegedly filmed obscene videos of Valsad MP Patel after drugging him and had threatened to make them public if she was not paid Rs 7 crore.

Kumar allegedly had helped the woman in execution of the offence. The court had issued an NBW against Kumar on June 2 after the police informed it that he was untracable. Kumar’s counsel sought anticipatory bail, saying that he was neither named in the FIR nor there were any allegations against him in it.

He said Kumar, who was running a business in Noida, was ready to join the probe as and when directed.