Duty Metropolitan Magistrate Paras Dalal of the Patiala House Court said that the allegations against the accused Bala Saraswati are serious in nature, and therefore, ordered that she be sent to judicial custody till August 26.
“Having considered the seriousness of the allegations, this court deems it appropriate to commit the accused to judicial custody since the apprehension of the IO [Investigating Officer] is true that once released on bail, the accused may abscond and even threatened the witness or indulge in similar offence vide same modus operandi,” the order stated.
The Court took note of the CCTV footage of one such incident in which Saraswati can be spotted walking away with a bag.
It rejected Saraswati’s contention that the woman seen in the footage is not her.
Source: Barandbench
