The Madhya Pradesh High Court turned down the bail application of jailed and dismissed IAS officer Tinoo Joshi who is facing trial in a disproportionate assets case, saying that it deserved to be rejected.
Justice Shantanu Kemkar said that in the present scenario, corruption is a challenge for society, while dismissing the disgraced officer's bail plea yesterday.
Lokayukta Special Public Prosecutor Pankaj Dubey told the court that Tinoo was granted bail in January this year for three months, after which she moved an application praying that she had to undergo an emergency surgery.
However, she didn't undergo the surgery and did not surrender after completion of her bail duration, Dubey said.
He said that she turned herself in only after a fresh arrest warrant against her was issued.
Dubey told the court that Tinoo Joshi's husband Arvind Joshi, who is also an IAS official dismissed from service in a disproportionate case, has been on the run for a long period and there is also a possibility that he had fled abroad.
Tinoo Joshi and Arvind Joshi, who are both 1979 IAS officers of MP cadre, had made news in February 2010, after cash, papers of properties and investments worth crores of rupees were found in their official residence in Bhopal.
In December 2010, the Lokayukta police raided their residence as well and recovered huge wealth allegedly disproportionate to their known sources of income.
The Lokayukta police had chargesheeted the couple after pegging their ill-gotten wealth at Rs 41.87 crore.
