Mumbai, September 28: IPS officer Saji Mohan, arrested in January for allegedly possessing drugs and conspiring to smuggle them, has approached the sessions court seeking bail. Mohan, who was the joint director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), and two others — businessman Vicky Oberoi and police constable Rajesh Kantharia — were arrested by the state Anti Terrorism Squad and booked under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
“We have filed the bail plea as the prosecution had already filed its chargesheet in the case and since the investigations are complete, Mohan”s custody is not required any more,” Mohan”s lawyer Balkrishnan said. The court will hear the plea on October 7.
The ATS had on May 12 filed a 400-page chargesheet against the three accused along with recorded telephonic conversations between Mohan and members of a drug cartel. Mohan, a former zonal director with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Chandigarh, was arrested on January 25 this year for possessing 12 kilogrammes of heroin allegedly smuggled from across the border.
The drug racket came to light after Oberoi and Kantharia were arrested in January this year.
—PTI–