Chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja allowed the bail plea of Junaid Khan, a Mumbai- based businessman, taking into consideration the fact that he had been in custody since September 14.
Other issues like the progress made in setting up of evening/morning courts, strengthening of vigilance cells; computerisation of courts, holding of courts in jail by every Chief Metropolitan Magistrate or Chief Judicial Magistrate or Metropolitan Magistrate of the area on regular basis to take up cases of undertrial prisoners and to consider increasing the ratio of appointments to High Courts from among judicial officers to 50 per cent of the Judges' strength of the High Court concerned instead of the present one third are expected to be discussed.
The accused cheated the complainant without any valid certificate of registration of being a recruiting agent to commence or carry on the business of recruitment for the purpose of emigration of any citizen of India, thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 24 of the Act, 1983 and within my cognisance, I hereby direct that you be tried by this court for the said offences," said additional chief metropolitan magistrate Raj Kumar Tripathi in the report.
Last year, the Mumbai Metropolitan Magistrate Court's Bar Association resolved not to represent him, while some lawyers who said they were willing to take on the case had their homes attacked.
The Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate has directed Vakola police to register a case against Roy and other officials for conspiring to detain Awasthi illegally under the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act (MPDA).
Besides, the police headquarters and different police departments like Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Special Branch (SB), Detective Branch (DB), Highway Police and Railway Police, city police stations, Rab, judge courts and chief metropolitan magistrate courts will come under e-policing network by next month.
District Judges (stipendiary magistrates) are a common sight at other busy metropolitan magistrates courts where their legal background means they can hear cases which hinge on complex points of law.
