Delhi court allows CBI plea seeking production of ex-Reliance Anil Ambani Group executive in Mumbai

Having considered the totality of facts and circumstances, the present prisoner transit warrant is signed subject to the condition that it would be open to the jail superintendent concerned to ensure the execution of the warrant, subject to Section 304 of the BNSS... the judge said.

A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed CBI's plea seeking production of a former executive of Reliance Anil Ambani Group (RAAG), Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, before a Mumbai court. Jhunjhunwala is in jail in an alleged bank loan fraud-linked money laundering case. Special Judge Hasan Anzar said that the inmate could be produced before the court concerned by issuing a prisoner transit warrant. ''Having considered the totality of facts and circumstances, the present prisoner transit warrant is signed subject to the condition that it would be open to the jail superintendent concerned to ensure the execution of the warrant, subject to Section 304 of the BNSS...'' the judge said. The BNSS provision deals with ''the officer in charge of prison to abstain from carrying out order in certain contingencies.'' ''It would be open for the in-charge/jail superintendent that if he is unable to carry out the order, then he can send a report in terms of Section 304 of the BNSS,'' the judge added.