Bombay high court slams police for clubbing cases in Speak Asia scam

Expressing displeasure with city police for clubbing all cheating cases in the multi-crore Speak Asia online investment scam, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday said by failing to file chargesheet in the case till date the agency is giving an impression that it is in connivance with the fraudsters. Justice R C Chavan observed that it has been over a year since the scam was unearthed and case was registered by the city police’s economic offences wing but till date charge sheet has not been filed. ‘The agency must have till date collected over 10,000 pages in evidence. Then why no chargesheet has been filed? Why have you (EOW) clubbed all the cheating cases together? Each person’s investment is different from that of another person’s. By clubbing all the cases, the investigating agency is causing delay in filing charge sheet and trial,’ the court said.