NAGPUR, July 17: Six members of a family including a constable attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), have been issued show cause notices by the High Court Bench here wherein, they have been asked to give reasons why the anticipatory bail granted to them by the Sessions Court of Wardha in a case of abetting bigamy and cheating should not be cancelled.

Returnable by July 23, the notices direct the six applicants to explain why it was not disclosed to the High Court that their plea for anticipatory bail was pending consideration before the lower court at Wardha.

The applicants are - constable Ashok Pundalik Fule (40), his wife, Kanta (30), brother, Ravi Pundalik Fule (33), his wife, Pallavi (25), mother, Geeta Pundalik Fule (65), and brother-in-law, Balraj Sukhdeo Kamble (52).They were booked by the Arvi police on June 20 for aiding and abetting Ashok's younger brother, Hemant Fule, to commit bigamy.

While Hemant was held by the police on the same day, the six others were apprehending arrest and hence applied for an anticipatory bail before the sessions court at Wardha on June 24.

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