The metropolitan magistrate court granted bail on Thursday to five of the six accused who had been arrested in the SpeakAsia scam. Tarak Bajpai (36), chief operating officer, Rajeev Mehrotra, technical head for its portal, Shaikh Latif (32), an assistant for the daily portal's operations and in-charge of regular pop-ups, Ravi Khanna (44), a finance accountant, and Deepankar Sarkar, a panelist, were granted bail on a cash surety of Rs 3 lakh each.
Under the conditions of bail, the accused will have to deposit their passports and they cannot leave the city. They also have to report to the economic offences wing office every Monday and Thursday. The sixth accused, Rahul Shah, a partner in SpeakAsia, is in police custody. The defence argued that none of the accused had any active role to play in the case.
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