The Bombay High Court recently observed that the trial court, while convicting former Congress MLA Sunil Kedar, made observations contrary to presented evidence and ignored that Kedar himself lodged the FIR.
Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke of the Nagpur bench suspended the sentence of Kedar, convicted in a bank scam case of over Rs. 153 Crores, stating that Kedar has raised arguable points in his appeal against conviction.
The trial court concluded that there was a conspiracy between Kedar and officers of HTL. However, the High Court pointed out that this is contrary to to the investigating officer’s admission that Kedar neither invested the amount for his personal gain, nor is he anyway concerned with the transfer of of that amount.