Court has declined to hear an application opposing plea taking by billionaire businessman Mohan Galot who was to be charged today.
Addressing Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi, Galot’s lawyer Stanley Kangahi said they have raised weighty issues in the application opposing taking of plea.
The Magistrate however declined to he hear the application saying that he was not prepared for such and therefore had no time.
Last week, the tycoon lost a temporary application for stay order at the High Court that preventing any additional charges against him.
Mr Galot is accused of forgery in a dispute with his two nephews regarding the shareholding and directorship of the family’s multibillion shilling group of companies.
While vacating the stay order on the criminal proceedings he had issued earlier, Justice George Odunga said there is no compelling reason advanced by the applicant why the trial ought to be stayed at this stage.
Justice Odunga said the court had considered the likely consequences of continuing to block the plea taking.
“Confronted with such circumstances, what the court ought to do is to consider the twin overriding principles of proportionality and equality of arms, which are aimed at placing the parties before the court on equal footing and see where the scales of justice lie,” judge Odunga ruled.
Galot who is the Chairperson of Galot Industries Limited and his nephews Pravin and Rajesh Galot have been in and out of courts pursuing criminal charges against each other.
Accusations
It is alleged that Galot forged CR12 REF C.19267 of Galot Industries purporting it to be a genuine document signed by registrar of companies Nicholas Oduor.