Ms.Kanimozhi has failed to obtain bail despite her sequential applications in the CBI court, Delhi High Court and now the Supreme Court. Some of the exchanges between the Supreme Court judges and the advocates are partly interesting and partly intriguing. For example,
"A special bench of justices G. S. Singhvi and B. S. Chauhan ticked off counsel for Ms. Kanimozhi and co-accused Kalaignar TV managing Director Sharad Kumar when they claimed that they were innocent and were not hungry for money.
“Hungry people neither take bribe nor do they come to the courts. None of them (accused) is a hungry person,” the bench remarked when senior counsel Altaf Ahmed argued that the accused were “not hungry for money,” and the Rs. 200 crore transferred to Kalaignar TV was part of a loan amount."
Again,
"The bench was not impressed with the defence plea that the accused were willing to abide by any condition for bail and even the IMF Chief Dominique Strauss—Kahn was granted bail in the sexual molestation case.
“Let us keep the media discussions outside. It tends to blur our thinking" the bench remarked. "
Are the alleged offences of Kahn and Kanimozhi comparable? Kahn was arrested as soon as the alleged offence was committed whereas the latter was taken into custody when it became unavoidable.
The Court championed the cause of equality when
The bench did not agree with the plea of senior counsel Sushil Kumar that Ms. Kanimozhi should be granted bail as she has a 10-year old child to look after and that she was being denied his company.
“That happens to all other women,” the bench remarked.
"A special bench of justices G. S. Singhvi and B. S. Chauhan ticked off counsel for Ms. Kanimozhi and co-accused Kalaignar TV managing Director Sharad Kumar when they claimed that they were innocent and were not hungry for money.
“Hungry people neither take bribe nor do they come to the courts. None of them (accused) is a hungry person,” the bench remarked when senior counsel Altaf Ahmed argued that the accused were “not hungry for money,” and the Rs. 200 crore transferred to Kalaignar TV was part of a loan amount."
Again,
"The bench was not impressed with the defence plea that the accused were willing to abide by any condition for bail and even the IMF Chief Dominique Strauss—Kahn was granted bail in the sexual molestation case.
“Let us keep the media discussions outside. It tends to blur our thinking" the bench remarked. "
Are the alleged offences of Kahn and Kanimozhi comparable? Kahn was arrested as soon as the alleged offence was committed whereas the latter was taken into custody when it became unavoidable.
The Court championed the cause of equality when
The bench did not agree with the plea of senior counsel Sushil Kumar that Ms. Kanimozhi should be granted bail as she has a 10-year old child to look after and that she was being denied his company.
“That happens to all other women,” the bench remarked.
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