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5-day police custody remand for B P VermaOnkar Singh in New Delhi The special magistrate at Tees Hazari, Paramjit Singh, on Monday remanded B P Verma, former Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs and his son Siddarth Verma and Bhavana Pandey to five days of police custody. The judge allowed the three accused to have a 15 minute legal meeting with their counsels before taking up the matter. During the course of hearing, Verma developed breathing problem and could not stand. He then had to be moved at the back row of the court for fresh air and his lawyers, I U Khan, H R Khan and S A Hashmi argued the case. The CBI counsel, Virendra Kumar pressed for seven days' police remand for all the accused since Vijay Pratap the middleman used by Verma was yet to be arrested. He also alleged that some documents were seized from Bhavna's residence at Saket relating to transfers and postings of some custom officers who had prime postings. The surprising part of Monday's proceeding was that Verma was not booked for possessing asset misappropriate to the known source of income. I U Khan argued that the CBI was leaking the information to the media and was trying to project a black image of his clients. "My client does not have a farm house worth Rs 100 million nor does he owns a three star hotel in Nainital worth Rs 1,000 million. The only two properties that my client has are two flats; one in Delhi and other in Calcutta. And both the flats have been declared in his income tax return," Khan told the judge. The counsel for Siddarth Verma, Ashok Arora argued that his client could not be booked under the prevention of corruption act as he had not helped anybody in any manner in evading customs duties worth several billions, as alleged by the CBI. The three have been booked under section 7, 11, 12, 13 (1) (d) of prevention of corruption act while Siddarth and Bhavana have also been booked under 120(b) of the Indian Penal Code for conspiracy. The Judge also directed the CBI that B P Verma should be medically examined before taking into custody. ALSO READ:
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