2020 (11) TMI 1070

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...., Panchkula. [3]. The allegations in the FIR are that Welfare Minister, Government of India in the month of July, circulated scholarship post matric scheme. Under the scheme, post matric students getting admission in post matric courses belonging to scheduled caste are paid scholarship of Rs.230/- to Rs.1200/- per month and non-refundable fees. Before 2015, the scheme was conducted manually. In 2015-16, the scheme was online for which Trigma company prepared a software for which the concerned department made the agreement in the year 2017. The allegations are of fraudulent means to usurp the scholarship amount. [4]. During investigation, it has been alleged that 41 students of District Yamunanagar were shown to be studying in differen....

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....the year 2015 and out of these 41 students, bank accounts of 28 students were got opened by the them at Yamunanagar and they had retained the passbooks and ATM cards of those students. [7]. Learned counsel further submitted that the petitioner is in custody since 07.09.2020. Petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case by virtue of his designation as Chairman at one point of time. Petitioner has no role to play in the alleged offence which took place in the academic years 2015-16, 2016- 17 and 2017-18 whereas the petitioner had resigned on 20.03.2015 from the Chairmanship of University and his resignation was accepted on 29.03.2015. Since 01.04.2015, petitioner is working with O.K. India News Channel. Co-accused Gurdev Kaur and Rit....

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....ences would fall under the category of "grave offence" and in such circumstances, while considering the application for bail, the Court will have to deal with the same, being sensitive to the nature of allegation made against the accused. One of the circumstances to consider the gravity of the offence is also the term of sentence that is prescribed for the offence the accused is alleged to have committed. Such consideration with regard to the gravity of offence is a factor which is in addition to the triple test or the tripod test that would be normally applied. In that regard what is also to be kept in perspective is that even if the allegation is one of grave economic offence, it is not a rule that bail should be denied in every case sinc....