Uttarakhand HC grants bail to Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna

NAINITAL: The Uttarakhand High Court today granted bail to yoga guru Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna, nearly a month after he was arrested by the CBI in a fake document case.

Hearing the bail application, a single judge bench of Justice Tarun Agrawal granted bail to Balkrishna.

The court also ordered Balkrishna to furnish two personal sureties of Rs 10 lakh, Balkrishna's counsel Rajendra Dobhal said.

Balkrishna had moved the High Court after he failed to get relief from lower courts which rejected his bail pleas twice.

A day after being arrested from Haridwar on July 20, Balkrishna had filed a bail plea before the special CBI court which rejected the application and sent him to 9-day judicial remand.

Later, Balkrishna had moved the Dehra Dun district court which also rejected his bail application on July 31.

Balkrishna, who is facing the charges of using fake educational documents for obtaining an Indian Passport, is currently lodged in Suddhowala Jail here.

He was arrested after the CBI court issued Non Bailable Warrants (NBW) against him after he failed to appear before it.

The CBI had on July 10 filed a chargesheet in the court against Balkrishna. In its chargesheet, CBI has also accused Naresh Chandra Dwivedi, the then Principal of Sanskrit Mahavidyala Khurja in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly helping Balkrishna obatain fake educational certificates.