The Bombay High Court has directed Principal Pune District and Sessions Judge Anant Badar to inquire into whether Anushree Kundra,accused in the lawyer Juhi Prasad murder case,was in judicial custody between December 9,2011 and December 13,2011 and whether this custody was authorised by any magistrate or court. A writ petition had been filed by Kundra on January 30 stating that her detention from December 8 to December 12 was illegal as police had failed to seek extension of her magisterial custody. A report by the magistrate concerned with respect to her alleged illegal detention was received by the HC on Monday,after which Justice Abhay Thipsay of the Bombay HC directed Badar to hold an inquiry. The contents of the report,however,were not revealed. The HC has further directed Badar to record the statement of the prison authorities concerned (Yerawada central jail) to ascertain the basis on which the petitioner had been detained in the said period and submit a report on July 12. The inquiry assumes importance considering that ever since Kundras arrest in November,her anticipatory and regular bail pleas had been rejected by the magistrates court,the Pune Sessions court and the High Court till date. Kundra has been accused of murdering Prasad,a Delhi lawyer and family friend of BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy,on October 13 at her fiance Nimesh Sinhas rented flat in Wanowrie. Sinha,reportedly Kundras former lover survived with minor burns. The accused,allegedly angry after hearing about Sinhas engagement to Prasad,had gone to his Pune residence where she entered into an argument with Prasad and Sinha. Police said she set the couple on fire,when they were asleep.
