The court also extended the custody of Swan telecom promoter Shahid Balwa for four days after the CBI requested the court that it wanted to confront them on the money trail.
Special CBI judge O P Saini said, considering the enormity of crime, complex and complicated nature of the investigation, voluminous documents involved in the case, further custodial interrogation of the accused persons is justified.
During the hearing on its plea for extension of the remand for Raja and Balwa, the CBI said the duo needed to be confronted with some more documents recovered by the investigating agency.
With the court remanding Raja to three more days of CBI’s custody, the former minister will be completing the maximum number of 14 days for which any investigating agency can keep an accused in its custody for questioning. Raja was arrested on February 2 and remanded in CBI custody.