Nayak gets 2-day reprieve

Suspended Mumbai police officer and 8216;8216;encounter specialist8217;8217; Daya Nayak got a temporary reprieve today with the Supreme ...

Suspended Mumbai police officer and 8216;8216;encounter specialist8217;8217; Daya Nayak got a temporary reprieve today with the Supreme Court ordering that he not be arrested till it hears his anticipatory bail plea. The court has fixed Friday for hearing his pre-arrest bail plea, relating to a disproportionate assets case registered by the Mumbai police.

A bench comprising Justices KG Balakrishnan, GP Mathur and Raja Varadarajulu Raveendran has extended by a further two days the week-long protection granted Nayak by the Bombay High Court. The protection is to expire tomorrow. 8216;8216;We extend the protection granted to him till Friday,8217;8217; the apex bench said in its interim order.

Rejecting Nayak8217;s anticipatory bail plea on February 8, the Bombay High Court had directed Nayak to surrender within a week. U Lalit, senior counsel for Nayak, has submitted before the Supreme Court that if his anticipatory bail plea were not entertained within two days, the whole purpose of approaching the apex court would be defeated.

Nayak, who has killed 83 gangsters in encounters during his ten-year career, has been accused of possessing assets disproportionate to his legal sources of income, under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

According to the FIR registered on January 20 by the Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB of the Mumbai Police, Nayak has assets worth over 40 lakh, in excess by 212 per cent of his legitimate income.

The High Court had rejected Nayak8217;s bail plea on the ground that the prosecution wanted his custodial interrogation to probe 8216;8216;some huge transactions8217;8217; attributed to his wife Komal, for which Nayak8217;s custodial interrogation was necessary. Komal Nayak has already been granted bail.

Nayak associate denied bail

MUMBAI: A sessions court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of P Manivellan, an alleged associate of Daya Nayak, in the disproportionate assets case. Manivellan, director of one of the sick companies that Nayak allegedly used as a front to launder his ill-gotten wealth, is in judicial custody. The prosecution8217;s case against Manivellan is that he helped Nayak to circulate black money. Opposing his bail, public prosecutor R V Kini has alleged that even while in jail Manivellan and Nayak were trying to tamper with evidence.