New Delhi, May 14 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of a Delhi-based businessman held in the Rs 21,000 crore Mundra port drug haul case.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh, however, granted liberty to accused Harpreet Singh Talwar alias Kabir Talwar to approach the court after six months for bail.
The bench termed the allegation of terror financing against Talwar as premature and directed the special court to list the matter twice in a month for expeditious conclusion of trial in the case.
On April 23, the top court reserved its verdict on the bail plea after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said the proceeds of sale were used for funding terror activities of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Talwar, who ran...