Five-day remand for Aggarwal

NEW DELHI, Dec 24 (PTI, UNI) — A designated city court today remanded former Enforcement Deputy Director Ashok Aggarwal, arrested on charges of extortion, bribery, forgery and causing wrongful confinement, in five days’ CBI custody to facilitate his interrogation.

Special Judge S.S. Bal, on the request of the CBI, remanded Aggarwal, who was arrested yesterday, in CBI custody till December 29 and posted a bail application moved by the accused for hearing on January 3.

However, the Judge allowed a counsel of the accused to meet him twice for 10 minutes every day during the custody period.

Mr Aggarwal was arrested by the CBI in a joint operation with the Delhi Police at Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh yesterday from Hotel Taj, where he was staying with his family under an assumed name.