No SC relief for Pandey

We are not going to say anything now. We will hear you Monday, said a bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Ranjana Desai.

Pandey moved the apex court after the Gujarat High Court dismissed his anticipatory bail plea Wednesday.

The trial court,which had earlier denied him bail,issued a non-bailable warrant after the 1980-batch IPS officer failed to appear before it.

Pandey,declared a proclaimed absconder for not showing up before CBI and the court,had appeared before the Ahmedabad trial court on July 29 after the SC gave him two days to do so on July 26.

Pandey was Joint Commissioner of Police,Ahmedabad Crime Branch,when Ishrat,Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai,Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on June 15,2004.

COPS Look out for absconding Pandey

Ahmedabad: Director General of Police Amitabh Pathak Thursday issued a letter to all district police chiefs and commissioners to look for absconding Additional DGP PP Pandey. The Gujarat police chiefs move follows a request from CBI for assistance in nabbing Pandey.

Pandey was absconding for three months before he surfaced on July 29 before the CBI court on a stretcher pleading he was indisposed. He was last seen Tuesday when he made a brief appearance before the same court. ENS