Thakur’s bail plea rejected

Opposing the bail plea,special public prosecutor Harshad Nimbalkar had said it is a case of conspiracy and Thakur is one of the main accused. “His blood-stained clothes were seized and the blood was matched with that of Nayana Pujari,” he said. Nimbalkar added that approver Rajesh Chowdhary,has described the role of each accused in detail and had given his statement before a magistrate. “Thakur had raped Nayana twice. Thakur along with another accused Yogesh Raut went to withdraw money from ATM using Nayana’s debit card.”

Thakur had allegedly written the pin number of the card on a piece of paper and the handwriting expert’s report is still awaited. The accused had decided to kill Nayana after they came to know that she was an employee of software firm Synechron in Kharadi where one of the accused also worked.

Nayana Pujari was allegedly kidnapped from outside her company by four suspects in a car on October 7,2009. The next day,her body was recovered from the Zarewadi forest area. The trial is expected to begin from June 20.