New Delhi, May 27: Bofors case accused Win Chadha was today denied permission by a city court to go back to Dubai for treatment of his ailments by the doctors attending on him regularly.Dismissing his application Special Judge Ajit Bharihoke said the plea of Chadha was dismissed as all facilities for treatment of his ailments were available in India.Chadha could obtain all medical records from Dubai for continuation of his treatments by expert doctors here, he said.The court also accepted the CBI contention that Chadha did not come to India voluntarily to face trial and would flee from justice if allowed to go back to Dubai.Chadha, accused of receiving a part of the Rs 64 crore bribe money, had in his application submitted that he was suffering from various ailments like hypertension, diabetes and heart disease and should be allowed to go back to Dubai for his treatments by his regular consultants.The Dubai-based NRI, who was granted bail by the court on March 21 on furnishing a bail bond of Rs two lakh and a surety of the like amount, had come here on March 18 to face trial in the case after eluding arrest by CBI for about 12 years.The court order came on the basis of the report by a panel of expert doctors of the AIIMS saying "Diagonostic and treatment facilities for all ailments from which Chadha is suffering are available at AIIMS".CBI alleged the Bofors company had paid a huge amount of bribe to middlemen and public servants to clinch the deal worth Rs 1,437 crore for the supply of 400-155mm Howitzer field guns with India in March 1986 despite its undertaking that no middleman would be engaged for the purpose.After filing of the chargesheet by CBI on October 22 last year, so far only Chadha and former Defence Secretary S K Bhatnagar, also on bail, have appeared before the court to face trial.The other accused yet to appear before the court are - Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, currently in Kuala Lumpur, and former Bofors company chief Martin Ardbo. The company itself has been arraigned as an accused in the case.The court had on April 26 issued a fresh non-bailablearrest warrant against Ardbo and asked the agency to find out the real successor of the Bofors company so that action could be initiated against it. The case would come up for hearing on June two, the next date of hearing.CBI counsel had earlier told the court that the agencyhad approached the Malaysian authorities for Quattrocchi's extradition as he failed to appear before it despite a non-bailable warrant pending against him.
