Bhubaneswar: A CBI court here on Tuesday granted bail to Charchit Mishra, son of industrialist Mahimananda Mishra in connection with the Paradip Port bribery case. The court has ordered him not to influence witnesses and to deposit his passport.
Charchit, who is also the Director of Orissa Stevedores Ltd (OSL), was arrested by the Central agency on August 6. Another accused in the case, Sisir Kumar Das who was arrested along with Mishra had been granted bail on August 10.
Notably, the agency arrested four persons on August 5 including a top official of Paradip Port, in connection with the bribery case. They were, Saroj Kumar Das, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Paradip Port, contractor Sumant Rout, KCT Group’s Manager (Port Operations) Sankha Subhra Mitra, and OSL DGM (Operations) Surya Narayan Sahoo.
