MUMBAI, June 9: Dressed in a blue jacket, a visibly downcast C R Bhansali, the high profile Chairman of the CRB group was flown into the megapolis tonight from New Delhi to be produced before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate here on Tuesday.Bhansali, who was the first to alight from the Indian Airlines flight, was received by a battery of photographers and was later whisked away in a waiting CBI car to Whitehouse the CBI's headquarters (banking fraud cell) of the western region.Bhansali, minus his family members, who were brought from Hong Kong to the Capital yesterday, was escorted into the megapolis by CBI joint director (western region) M Kumawat.Asked to comment on the investigations, Kumawat said, ``He (Bhansali) is here and luck is with us''. He immediately dashed off with Bhansali and DIG of the banking fraud cell of the CBI, Arup Patnaik to Whitehouse.Bhansali's arrival triggered a scuffle between photographers, television crew and police, who had assembled in large numbers at the domestic terminus at Santa cruz in north-west Mumbai.Earlier in New Delhi today, Bhansali's arrest created some confusion in the court.Soon after Bhansali was produced in the court of special judge Ajit Bharihoke, the CBI's deputy legal advisor (bank security and fraud cell), V N Srivastav moved his application for the transit remand saying the accused was arrested from the Indira Gandhi International Airport and the grounds of arrest were communicated to him.This was vehemently opposed by defence counsel S K Saxena who said the CBI went to Hong Kong on the basis of information given by Bhansali that he wanted to surrender voluntarily.Saxena said Bhansali went to Hong Kong for some business-related work and when he came to know about the the matter from the media, he wanted to come back and cooperate in the investigation.At this, Bharihoke said, ``Here the question is whether to give transit remand to the accused, and not surrender.''Directing the CBI to produce Bhansali in the Mumbai court on Tuesday, Bharihoke in his order said there was no need of a two-day transit remand.Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court praying for the winding up of CRB Caps, which became a public limited company in March 1991.
