The court had yesterday said the reason to arrest the couple after four years of registering the case was not spelt out in the arrest memos, as mandated. The ground for arrest of the petitioners mentioned in the arrest memos is in clear breach of the mandatory provisions, it said.
After her arrest, Kochhar spent six days in custody before being sent in judicial custody by the special court in Mumbai.While in the CBI custody, her lawyer, Kushal Mor, had submitted that she was being taken to a police lock-up where she was being made to sleep on the cold floor and considering her age and ailments, her health could get impacted. The court then allowed her access to home food, bed, mattress and chair.She, along with her husband Deepak Kochhar, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on December 23 in a case linked to alleged irregularities in an over u20b9 3,000-crore loan provided to the Videocon Group when she was heading the private sector bank.Stay connected for further updates in this case.
