Fabindia's senior officials seek anticipatory bail after being summoned by police

Fabindia officials sought anticipatory bail. PTI[/caption]Company's Managing Director William Bissel, Chief Executive Officer Subrata Dutta and five others applied for anticipatory bail yesterday in district court in Mapusa town, Superintendent of Police (CB) Kartik Kashyap told PTI on Thursday.The other five officials who have sought anticipatory bail to avoid arrest are Fabindia's regional manager Ruchira Pujari, marketing chief Ramu Chandra, stores in-charge Kundan Gupta, E-commerce head Arun Naikar and category head Ashima Agarwal, he said.Their applications would be heard on Thursday by the court.The district court had earlier this week granted anticipatory bail to Fabindia's Candolim store manager Chaitrali Sawant, who was questioned by crime branch on Wednesday.Kashyap said that several Fabindia officials have been summoned for questioning on Thursday while the company's MD and CEO have agreed to be present before the investigators on Friday.Goa police had arrested four employees of Fabindia outlet at Candolim village near here after Union HRD minister Smriti Irani, who visited the store on 3 April, alleged that it had a CCTV camera focusing at the trial room.They were booked under IPC sections 354C (voyeurism), 509 (intrusion into privacy) and IT Act's section 66E (capturing, publishing image of private area of any person without his/her consent). They were later granted bail.Fabindia has denied it had placed hidden cameras in any of its stores, holding that the camera in question was part of the surveillance system.PTI