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Reliance executives get bail, barred from travelling abroad

Reliance group vice-president A N Sethuraman and general manager (corporate affairs) Shankar Adawal had been remanded to judicial custody on April 29.

Hearing the bail application that was moved minutes after the two were remanded to judicial custody, Additional Sessions Judge R K Gauba said the two accused would have to furnish a personal bond of Rs one million (Rs10 lakh) each with two sureties each for an equal amount.

The judge said the two accused should not tamper with the evidence or try to influence witnesses by contacting them.

The court barred the two from travelling abroad and directed them to surrender their passports and said that the bail bond would be executed to the satisfaction of the trial court.

Earlier, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sangita Dhingra Sehgal had remanded them to judicial custody till May 13 and also issued a non-bailable warrant against Reliance group president V Balasubramaniam, the third accused in the CBI complaint filed on March 16.

However, the NBW was stayed on Tuesday till May 13 after Balasubramaniam's counsel gave an undertaking that he would surrender before the court on the same day.

Balasubramaniam, Sethuraman and Adawal have been charged under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and other relevant sections of the Official Secrets Act.

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