India, May 22 -- The Bombay High Court has set aside a non-bailable warrant issued against actor Arjun Rampal in a 2019 tax evasion case, calling the lower court's order "mechanical" and passed without proper application of mind. Rampal had approached the High Court seeking relief from a December 2019 order of the Mazgaon Magistrate, which directed the issuance of a non-bailable warrant against him in a case initiated by the Income Tax (IT) Department. The department had accused the actor of wilfully evading advance tax of Rs.42.41 lakh for the assessment year 2016-17.

Through counsel Swapnil Ambure and advocate-on-record Ameet Naik and Madhu Gadodia of Naik & Naik, Rampal contended that the warrant was illegal and unjustified, as the of...