Bansal surrenders before court, moves bail plea in graft case

New Delhi, Aug 22 (PTI) Director General CorporateAffairs B K Bansal, whose wife and daughter allegedlycommitted suicide last month, today surrendered before a Delhicourt and moved a plea seeking regular bail in a graft case. Special CBI Judge Gurdeep Singh, who had earlier grantedinterim bail to Bansal after the death of his family members,put up the application for hearing on August 26 and sent theaccused to judicial custody till September 2. The bail plea was filed on the ground that he was alreadyon interim bail since July 20 and during this period, hisconduct was not questionable. The application also claimed that the evidences weredocumentary in nature and his presence outside will not affectthe ongoing probe. The court had granted him relief after his wife Satyabala(58) and daughter Neha (28) allegedly hung themselves fromceiling fans in separate rooms at their residence in NilkanthApartments in East Delhi’s Madhu Vihar on July 19. Earlier, Bansal had alleged before the court that CBI hadcompelled his wife and daughter to take the extreme step. Bansal, an additional secretary-rank officer in theMinistry of Corporate Affairs, was arrested on July 16 forallegedly accepting bribe from a prominent pharmaceuticalcompany. His wife and daughter allegedly committed suicide,leaving separate notes, saying CBI raid had caused "greathumiliation" and they did not want to live after that. They,however, held nobody responsible for their death. PTI UKARC