Cheating case: Shilpa Shetty & Raj Kundra get court nod for overseas travel

Businessman Raj Kundra and his actress wife Shilpa Shetty have been granted permission by a sessions court to travel abroad after they sought the relaxation of conditions in the anticipatory bail granted to them in a cheating case.

Sessions Judge SC Khalipe granted the permission on June 9 to the celebrity couple on certain conditions.

Aniket Nikam, the counsel for the duo stated in the plea that the couple wanted to travel to London, UK and USA between June 12 and July 21 for business-related work and submitted their tentative schedule about the business meetings there besides the IIFA awards on July 14-15.

"If the application is allowed there are strong chances of tampering and hampering the investigation as the accused are influential people. On the previous occasion, one of the accused has threatened the complainant in the court. Hence, the application deserves to be rejected," he said.

On April 26, complainant Ravi Bhalotia, the proprietor of Bhalotia Exports had alleged in a FIR before Kongaon Police Station in Bhiwandi that he had delivered bedsheets through Best Deal TV (BDTV) but was yet to receive payment and has been duped of Rs 24 lakh.

Later, on May 9, the five moved the Thane sessions court which granted interim bail to Shetty and Kundra and three others in the case of alleged cheating and breach of trust filed against them with Kongaon police. They were granted pre-arrest bail on the bond of Rs 50,000 each on May 19.