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SC declines to entertain bail plea of chopper scam accused

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday did not intervene in a plea for bail filed by Augusta Westland VVIP chopper scam accused Christian Michel James.

The accused had said he was vulnerable to COVID-19 infection while in custody as an undertrial.

A Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud asked Michel to first present his bail plea before the Delhi High Court. The accused had cited the recent order passed by the Supreme Court to de-congest crowded prisons in a bid to stop infection from spreading within and from prisons.

“The agedness and a pre-existing ill state of health will make the applicant’s (Michel) body more susceptible to the infection than any other ordinary prisoner with a normal health condition,” Michel argued in his plea.