AKOLA, March 22: Chief Judicial Magistrate K K Kamble has granted bail to Satish Prabhudayal Dajjuka, one of the five accused in the Supreme Court bogus bail document scandal that rocked Vidarbha in 1994.The other accused, Rajkumar Dajjuka and his father Prabhudayal, are serving life terms in Amravati jail.Sangita Rajkumar Dajjuka was burnt to death after her marriage at Murtizapur a few years ago.The Sessions Court had acquitted all the four accused but the High Court, while allowing the Government's appeal, sentenced Rajkumar, Sangita's husband and Prabhudayal, her father-in-law, to life imprisonment. The sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court. Both the accused were arrested.However, the then Additional Sessions Judge Shalini Gaikwad released Rajkumar and Prabhudayal Dajjuka on October 26, 1994 on the basis of the Supreme Court's `bail document'. But the Supreme Court said it was bogus and directed the court to order a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the matter.Gaikwad thenfiled a criminal complaint against the accused in the lower CJM's court. The CBI filed the chargesheet against the brothers Rajkumar, Satish and Ravikumar and the father Prabhudayal and Yogendra Prasad Banwarilal Sharma, a Supreme Court advocate, on March 6 in the CJM's court here.Sharma was arrested on May 5, 1998 and released on bail on a surety of Rs 2,000 by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Mumbai on May 12, 1998.CBI's special prosecutor R Singh opposed Satish Dajjuka's bail plea on the ground that offences were severe. However, counsel for Satish, Satyanarayan Joshi, pleaded that the accused be granted bail as he had co-operated with the investigation and was not arrested till the filing of the chargesheet in the CJM's court.The judge granted bail to Satish on a surety of Rs 2,000.
