Court rejects anticipatory bail application of accused in hoarding collapse case
The court also rejected the bail application of Janhavi Marathe, a former director of Ego Media Pvt Ltd, which constructed the hoarding that collapsed, claiming 17 lives.
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Police claimed that the accused directors had conspired with the GRP and BMC officials to increase the size of the hoarding beyond permissible limits. (File Photo)A sessions court on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Arshad Khan, a wanted accused in the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse case.
The court also rejected the bail application of Janhavi Marathe, a former director of Ego Media Pvt Ltd, which constructed the hoarding that collapsed, claiming 17 lives.
The Mumbai police had opposed relief to both citing their involvement in the construction of the illegal hoarding in Ghatkopar. Additional public prosecutor Iqbal Solkar had submitted to the court that Marathe and Ego Media director Bhavesh Bhinde, had paid Rs 85 lakh to Khan, a partner with a firm named Mahpara Garments, for acquiring permissions from the Government Railway Police (GRP), the authority in-charge of the hoarding contract. Khan’s co-partner in the firm is Sumanna Quaiser Khalid, the wife of then-GRP Commissioner IPS officer Quaiser Khalid.
Police claimed that the accused directors had conspired with the GRP and BMC officials to increase the size of the hoarding beyond permissible limits.
Police claimed that the conspiracy involved falsely portraying the land as belonging to Railways to circumvent BMC policies that would have restricted the hoarding’s dimensions.
The detailed order is yet to be made available.
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