JUDGMENT

Rajnish Bhatnagar, J. - CRL.A. 125/2021 & CRL. A. 118/2021

Heard.

Admit.

List in due course in the category of Regular Matters as per the year of its seniority.

CRL.M.A 6842/2021 (for intervention) in CRL.A 149/2021

Dismissed as withdrawn.

CRL.M.(BAIL) 282/2021 in CRL.A. 125/2021

CRL.M.(BAIL) 358/2021 in CRL.A. 149/2021

CRL.M.(BAIL) 258/2021 in CRL.A. 118/2021

1. The present applications have been filed by the appellants under Section 389 (1) read with Section 482 Cr.P.C. for suspension of sentence during the pendency of the appeal.

2. The gist of the cases is that the FIR in the present cases was lodged on 01.03.2016 based on a source information. It showed that Neeraj Khatri, who, at the relevant time, was posted as Dy. Director (Scientist-C) in Ministry of Environment, Forest (MoEF) Govt. of India and accepted a bribe of Rs.4,13,000/- which was in form of bank draft (bearing no.557534 dated 03.07.2012) in favour of VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu made at the instance of S. Vaikundarajan, (Managing Partner of M/s V.V.Minerals) from the accounts of M/s V.V.Minerals, Chennai. It is disclosed that an application for environment clearance of M/s V.V.Minerals was pending in Ministr