New Delhi: A Delhi court has granted interim protection from arrest to Bikram Gogoi, whose name surfaced in the abduction and attempted murder case against R&AW ex-officer Vikash Yadav.
ThePrint had reported about Gogoi applying for anticipatory bail after an investigating team sent him four notices and summoned him for questioning.
“In these circumstances, as the applicant/accused, is willing to join the investigation, hence, he is directed to join the investigation on 06.09.2025 at 2.00 p.m. before the IO (investigating officer). Fresh reply/report be filed by the IO to the present bail application on 11.09.2025. Till then no coercive action be taken against the applicant/accused (sic),” the court said.
The next date of hearing is 11 September.
In response to Gogoi’s anticipatory bail plea, the IO stated that the Guwahati resident’s name surfaced after co-accused Abudullah Khan, in his disclosure statement, said that he had come in contact with the other accused, Jalaluddin, through the 24-year-old.
Though Gogoi stated that he studied with Jalauddin alias Sameer (an accused in the abduction case) in a Delhi school and had introduced him to Khan, he claimed innocence in the abduction case.
“Thus, the role of the applicant/accused, as per reply of the bail application, is that of introducer, as he introduced co-accused Abdullah Khan and co-accused Jalaluddin. Further investigation is to be carried out to find out whether the role of the applicant was more than what is stated in the reply of the bail application,” the court noted.
The Special Cell of the Delhi Police is investigating the abduction and attempted murder case lodged in 2023 against Yadav and others. All three accused (Yadav, Khan and Jalaluddin) are currently out on bail.
Delhi businessman Raj Kumar Walia had accused Yadav and Khan of abducting and torturing him, while demanding ransom in the name of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Subsequently, the charge sheet filed last year in the case says that it was Jalaluddin who allegedly gave Bishnoi the contract to kill Walia.
Yadav was arrested just weeks after the US Department of Justice indictment named him in the alleged murder-for-hire plot against Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. While Yadav is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), co-accused Nikhil Gupta awaits his trial in the US from a Brooklyn prison.
(Edited by Tony Rai)