Mumbai: Mumbai Police's encounter specialist Daya Nayak, his wife Komal and business associate Rajendra Phadte got a temporary reprieve after the Mumbai High Court barred their arrest until its order on their bail plea.
The three were facing arrest after a court in Mumbai rejected their plea for anticipatory bail. The bail was rejected by Judge S P Mahajan, who observed that there was a prima facie case against them. The Anti-Corruption Bureau opposed the bail plea, saying custodial interrogation of the accused was necessary.
Nayak, his wife and Phadte stayed inside the session’s court refusing to move out as their lawyer approached the High Court for bail.
The police had earlier said that Nayak would be arrested soon.
But the High Court ruled that he cannot be arrested as the court has been working on his bail plea. The hearing in the case is scheduled for tomorrow, but it may also go up to four-five days.
Daya Nayak's properties were raided by the Anti-Corruption Bureau a few weeks back. He is charged with having wealth more than his known sources of income.
Nayak was earlier suspended as a sub-inspector with the Mumbai police. He is famous for his high-profile encounters against the Mumbai underworld. He claims to have shot dead more than 80 gangsters in shootouts.
On January 31, the court had reserved order on the anticipatory bail petitions of the three, till February 2.
The interim protection granted to Nayak, Komal and Padte continued till today as ACB was restrained from arresting them.
ACB has booked Nayak for possessing wealth allegedly disproportionate to his known sources of income. His wife Komal has been charged with helping him laundering his ill-gotten wealth.
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Komal's former colleague Rajendra Padte also urged for bail as he feared arrest in the case.
The 3 accounts are: A/c 013 - 361620 - HSBC Bank - Vile Parle West ; A/c 0202622 - 02 - Development Corporation Bank - Santacruz West ; A/c 20105- Dena Bank, Borivali West.
Komal Nayak is also the director of two finance companies - Ojus Finance and Kuber Housing Private Limited. When questioned she was unable to explain her source of income.
ACB also claims that Nayak owns a fleet of luxury tourist buses and a travel company in the name of Vishal Travels in Andheri.
He has a penthouse on Malad link road registered in the name of one of his relatives.
On his links with the film industry the ACB report states that he has financed two films, a Kannada film titled Encounter Daya Nayak and a Hindi film Kagaar.
ACB has identified a person called Mansoor Hemjady who paid for the travel and hotel bills when Encounter Daya Nayak's crew were in Dubai for a shoot.
Mansoor also ran a website called dayanayk.com.
All bills of a former number 98200 00843 used by Nayak a couple of years back was paid by Bangalore-based Deve Paints, who also donated a large sum to build a school in Nayak's village in Karnataka.
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