India digest

‘Crash evidence not tampered with’

The Air India Express Calicut accident site was secured by the CISF and no evidence was tampered with, said the civil aviation ministry on Thursday, dismissing apprehensions raised by an air safety expert, reports Manju V. Capt Amit Singh, an air safety expert, had drawn attention to a video footage aired byTV channels which showed a person dressed in military fatigues remove a document from the wreckage of the AIX cockpit. Attaching snapshots from the footage, Capt Singh wrote to the civil aviation secretary and sought a probe into the possible tampering of evidence. Based on his letter, TOI carried a report titled “AIExp Calicut crash evidence tampered?” on Thursday. TOI had sought a statement from the ministry of civil aviation on Wednesday, but received no response.

HC grants default bail to Wadhawans

The Enforcement Directorate

(ED) said it will approach the Supreme Court next week to challenge a default bail granted by

Bombay HC

to DHFL promoters Kapil Wadhawan and his brother Dheeraj in a

money laundering

case connected with the Yes Bank fraud case. The HC on Thursday granted the Wadhawans bail on a PR bond of Rs 1 lakh each as the ED had filed its chargesheet on July 13, a day after the 60-day deadline under law. The HC agreed with the Wadhawans’ counsel Amit Desai that no court has the power to extend the custody period beyond what the law stipulates.