Bina Ramani faints in court

NEW DELHI: Socialite Bina Ramani, who was arrested on Wednesday in Goa in connection with a cheating and forgery case, collapsed here in court on Thursday.
Ramani, also a key witness in the Jessica Lall murder case, and whose police remand has been sought for custodial interrogation, fainted in the midst of the hearing. She was produced before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamini Lau, who had issued a non-bailable warrant against her.
A medical team two doctors were immediately called in to attend to her. They pronounced her perfectly alright. After the 20-minute hiatus, the arguments resumed and are continuing.
The socialite withdrew her anticipatory bail application on Thursday following her arrest in on Wednesday night.
An application for anticipatory bail was moved on Wednesday in the wake of the NBW warrant against her, but it became infractuous after her arrest.
Ramani was arrested from a road side restaurant in Candolim, about 20km from Panaji, in a joint operation of a Special Investigation Team of Delhi Police and Goa Police.
The warrant against Ramani was issued by Delhi's Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Kamini Lau in a case of alleged cheating and forgery for acquiring a licence to run a restaurant in south Delhi where the ramp model was shot dead.
Police alleged Ramani obtained the license misrepresenting that she was the owner of the restaurant named 'Qutub Colonnade' on the basis of forged documents and served liquor without having any valid licence.
The court had issued the NBW, to be executed on or before September 15, on the prosecution's allegation that Ramani has not been joining the investigations and has been evading meeting with the investigating officer despite efforts to contact her.
The court had observed that her custodial interrogation was necessary in view of the nature of the allegations levelled against her.