Delhi HC Seeks Status Report On Gangster Neeraj Bawana's Interim Bail Plea
The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought a status report from the Delhi Police on a plea of Neeraj Bawana.
The jailed gangster filed an interim bail application to arrange funds for the treatment of his wife, who is hospitalised. Earlier, he was granted custody parole on July 1, reported ANI.
On Tuesday, Bawana visited his ailing wife from Tihar Jail to RLKC Hospital and Metro Heart Institute in Shadipur. He was escorted in a tight security cover with 25 Delhi police personnel and armed guards.
He was granted a six-hour custodial parole by the Delhi High Court to see his wife.
During his hospital visit, Bawana was only allowed to meet his wife and a doctor. The 35-year-old gangster is involved in over 30 cases of murder and extortion and runs a gang from inside the jail.
Bawana was among the most wanted criminals who was arrested in 2015 by the Special Cell. He had links to Fazal Ur Rehman, a close associate of gangster Dawood, and gangsters who had ties with Canada-based fugitive Arsh Dalla and Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani activist who was killed in Canada in 2023, according to the police.
The High Court granted him a custodial parole from 10 am to 4 pm after verifying the medical condition of his wife.
On Tuesday, jail officials were instructed to bring Bawana out of his cell between 9:30 am and 9:45 am. In the next 15 to 20 minutes, a team of additional police personnel went inside the prison and took him into custody. Meanwhile, over 25 personnel were deployed on the route from the central jail to RKLC Hospital in Pandav Nagar.
At 10:30 am, Bawana reached the hospital and was escorted inside the premises with videographers and armed guards around.
“We know that he has been running a gang from inside the jail. He also killed two undertrials inside a jail van when they were in judicial custody," said a senior officer of the Delhi Armed Police.
"There was also a threat to his life. He is only allowed to meet his wife and a doctor. He can’t talk to anyone else,” the official added.
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