Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to former inspector general of Haryana Police M S Ahlawat, who is accused of molesting a woman lawyer, saying he cannot be arrested till July 13.
Justice Alok Singh passed the order on Ahlawat's plea seeking bail.
"There is no need for Ahlawat's custodial interrogation. He is ready to cooperate with the police. There is no problem in submitting his voice and writing samples with the police," Ahlawat's lawyer Ajay Jain told the court.
Police have declared Ahlawat an absconder and issued a look-out notice for him after he went underground following a court in Haryana's Yamunanagar town June 16 rejecting his bail plea.
He was booked June 8 for molesting a woman lawyer in May 2002.
The Haryana Police also constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the molestation case against Ahlawat, eight years after Harvinder Kaur, a resident of Yamunanagar, first made her complaint. The SIT is yet to submit its report.
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