MAPUSA: The Additional Sessions Court, Mapusa declined to cancel the bail granted to Mohammed Fahim and Yusuf Thoramakki in Rs 1.2 crore cheating case.
Upon a written complaint filed by Antonio Silveira, brother of former Minister Francis Silveira, the police registered a case against Fahim and Thoramakkki. The complainant alleged that the accused with their common intention induced him to deliver fish worth Rs 1,24,48,525 and further failed to make payment and thereby cheated him.
The Porvorim police Station had filed an application for the cancellation of respondents’ bail on grounds that they were not found at the local address that they had furnished to the police at the time of securing their bail.
As per one of the conditions while securing anticipatory bail ‘the respondents therein were required to furnish their addresses of their residence in Goa along with their native addresses’. However upon enquiry with the owner of the said apartment, it was revealed that the respondents were not residing at the addresses provided and had left the premises without any information.
Representing both the respondents, Adv Myron Araujo argued that both the respondents had already submitted their permanent native addresses to investigation officer who had also verified the said addresses and that the respondents had also given their mobile numbers to the investigation officer. He submitted that the owner wanted the said flat for his personal occupation and therefore requested the respondents to vacate the premises. The respondents are in the process of submitting the details of the new address to the investigating officer, he said praying for applications for cancellation of bail be dismissed.
Additional Sessions Judge Sharmila Patil stated that considering that the respondents has now furnished residential address in Goa which is duly verified by the investigating officer and found to be correct, there is no case made out for cancellation of bail of the respondents.
