Meet to demand Kaneriya transfer

Ajay Desai, SDBA president, said that a requisition meeting had been called after 36 advocates of the bar gave letters calling for a general meeting. He added that the advocates contended that Kaneriya be transferred as the DCB had not managed the case well and did not file a chargesheet against the three accused arrested so far.

All three arrested, namely Chandrakant Kahar, Naresh Naphtha and Kallu Dagga were released on bail by a district and sessions court magistrate after the DCb failed to file a chargesheet against the three. The lawyers have been protesting in the case because municipal councillor Nita Satbhaya, also chairperson of the Municipal Law Committee, was a lawyer herself.

The lawyers had quit work in protest against the murder of the councillor for more than a month after Satbhaya was murdered on December 19 last year. They have since been on strike on a couple of occasions, demanding better investigation of the case by the police.