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DIG, CBI officials held for illegal entry plead for bail

Bihar Military Police Deputy Inspector General N C Dhondhiyal, along with four Central Bureau of Investigation officials, who had been remanded to judicial custody yesterday for allegedly trespassing, carrying out raids without warrants and seizing papers without proper authority, today moved a petition for regular bail before the judicial commissioner in Ranchi.

The petition for bail of the five accused could not be taken up as the court was adjourned after lawyers decided to abstain from work, following the death of a senior colleague. The petition would be taken up for hearing tomorrow.

Dhondhiyal, the then superintendent of police of the CBI, and four other CBI officers-- Narayan Jha, S B Pandey, Digvijay Bahadur Singh and Bishwanath Singh -- had surrendered before the court yesterday in a case filed against them by Hemchand, former chief of security, Central Coalfields Ltd, under section 147, 148 and 149. These officials had conducted a raid on Hemchand's house.

Hemchand filed a case against them alleging that the officials had illegally entered and searched his residence without a warrant.

The officials, who had till yesterday failed to appear before the court, were refused anticipatory bail and forwarded to judicial custody by first class judicial magistrate Ravi Shanker Sinha.

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