NEW DELHI, Feb. 6 -- A Delhi court granted bail to self-styled monk Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati in a case pertaining to forgery of diplomatic vehicle registration plates-one of three cases lodged against him last year, after allegations of molestation of girl students at a college where he was the director surfaced. Despite being granted bail, he remains behind bars in connection with the molestation case. Judicial magistrate first class Animesh Kumar, of the Patiala House Courts, passed the order on January 20, terming the probe by the Delhi Police "a shoddy investigation" and filing the charge sheet in a "casual manner". Pointing out the loopholes in the police's probe, the court observed, ".perusal of chargesheet would show that no incriminating material could be found against the applicant which could even prima facie show that it was the applicant who had himself forged the number plates." To be sure, Swami Chaitanyananda is facing five cases in all. Three of the cases, pertaining to molestation of 17 girl students, setting up a trust fraudulently to siphon off Rs.40 lakh per month and forgery of diplomatic number plates were filed in 2025. Of the three, he was arrested in connection with the molestation and forgery cases. Of the two previously lodged cases, the first case was lodged at Defence Colony Police Station in 2009 for fraud, while the second case lodged in 2016 alleging molestation of a student in Vasant Kunj. In both the cases, no arrest was made nor charge sheet filed, officers aware of the case said. In the bail order, the court said, ".the driver of the applicant who used to put the fake number plates on the car in question was not implicated even as a suspect in the present case; no investigation was carried out to find out the source of forged number plates; no investigation was carried out to establish as to whether the applicant has actually used the said car."...