Court grants Aggarwal bail in dropsy case

NEW DELHI, January 8: A Delhi court today granted bail to an oil dealer arrested in August last year following the outbreak of dropsy whi...

NEW DELHI, January 8: A Delhi court today granted bail to an oil dealer arrested in August last year following the outbreak of dropsy which claimed more than 60 lives in the Capital.

The sessions court decision came after the Delhi High Court granted bail to four other accused on December 21.

The High Court had granted bail to the four accused on the ground that quantity of argemone, the adulterant which causes dropsy, had not been specified and that there was no evidence of death caused by adulteration.On the same grounds, the sessions court yesterday granted bail to five accused including three nominees of the Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation (GMMF).

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The GMMF was the marketing agency for the National Dairy Development Board which manufactures Dhara mustard oil that was found adulterated. Granting bail to Kamal Aggarwal in five mustard oil adulteration cases, Additional District and Sessions Judge Sharda Aggaral asked him to furnish five separate bonds of Rs 25,000 and a surety of the like amount in each case.

The prevention of food adulteration department had filed nine cases and he has already secured bail in the other four cases.