New Delhi, March 11 -- The Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi on Tuesday directed the jail authorities to allow Christian Michel James, an accused in the Augusta Westland VVIP chopper deal case, to apply for his passport to fulfil his bail conditions.

James submitted before the Special CBI judge Sanjeev Aggarwal that he would need at least two months to apply for and get access to a passport as the same had expired.

The accused, Michel James, needs to surrender his passport to the court authorities as one of the conditions required to be fulfilled for the grant of bail.

On March 7, the Court directed Michel James to furnish a bond of Rs 5 lakh with one surety of the same amount as part of his bail conditions.

The court had also directed Mich...