The Delhi High Court grant bail on Tuesday to Avnish Bajaj , the chief executive police officer of Baazee.com India Pvt Ltd. , a Mumbai - based subsidiary of eBay Inc.
Delhi law arrested Bajaj last Friday in connective with the sale of a adult video CD on Baazee.com ’s online auction portal . He appear before a magistrate in Delhi on Saturday and was remanded to seven days discriminative custody at the postulation of police force investigating the case .
In granting bond to Bajaj , a U.S. citizen of Amerind origin , the evaluator of the Delhi High Court asked him to surrender his passport and provide two collateral payments of 100,000 rupees ( US$ 2,280 ) .
Bajaj ’s arrest has been criticized by legal expert and manufacture groups since he was apparently unaware that the video had been put on sale and had been collaborate with law . He was arrested under incision 67 of India ’s Information Technology Act , which relates to the transmission of obscene material through electronic medium .
Baazee.com has argued through its lawyers that it was unaware of the cognitive content of the magazine and that it move out it as shortly as it was found to be adult . The MMS ( multimedia system messaging service ) clip of two Delhi schoolchildren engaged in unwritten sex was allegedly recorded on a wandering phone by one of the participants in the act and forward to his friend . A pupil of the Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ) in Kharagpur put it up for auction on Baazee.com .
EBay spat the Amerindic courtroom for its warm determination to eject Bajaj on bond . The font lift return that are important for the Internet ’s ontogenesis in India and eBay hopes to work with the Amerindic government to clear up the responsibilities of on-line service providers , it said in a affirmation .
