mumbai in a relief for gutka baron jagdish joshi 68 convicted for conspiring with fugitive underworld don dawood ibrahim in an organised crime the bombay high court on monday suspended his 10year sentence and pending his appeal against conviction granted him bail for a surety of rs 1 lakhin january a special maharashtra control of organised crime act mcoca court convicted joshi and two others for hatching a criminal conspiracy with dawood two decades ago to set up a gutka factory in pakistanon february 20 joshi was granted interim bail by the supreme court till the hc expeditiously hears and decides the bail plea joshi through senior counsel aabad ponda and advocate subhash jadhav sought suspension of the 10year sentence passed by the special mcoca judge on january 9 and sought release on bailthe cbis case was that between 1999 and 2004 accused dawood jamruddin ansari rajesh pancharia anees ibrahim kaskar farooque ahmed mansoori joshi r m dhariwal since deceased abdul hamid antulay and salim shaikh entered into a criminal conspiracy to commit organised crime special public prosecutor pradeep gharat said in 2002 ansari issued death threats to two businesspersons to send five gutka pouchpackaging machines to dubai and from there to pakistan through a coaccused he also said that joshi travelled to pakistan to meet dawood to settle his dispute with dhariwal for rs 11 crore and helped establish a gutka manufacturing unit through the settlement amountponda argued that the special court failed to consider general exceptions under few sections of the ipc and that the allegations of joshi going to pakistan and meeting dawood are hearsay thus inadmissible as evidence he said joshi went to pakistan in september 1999 with a valid visa for business purposes