Suraj Parmar case: Court rejects 4 corporators’ pleas

The Thane sessions court on Saturday rejected the bail applications of four corporators of the Thane Municipal Corporation whose names figured in the suicide note of city-based builder Suraj Parmar. The main reason for rejecting the application was that corporators could harass witnesses and vanish from the city.

The judge V.V. Bambarde rejected the bail pleas of NCP city president Najeeb Mulla, Hanumant Jagdale (leader of Opposition in municipal corporation, NCP), Vikrant Chavan (Congress) and Sudhakar Chavan (independent).

The public prosecutor argued, “Four of the accused are not from a good background; all of them have a criminal background and so can harm witnesses and destroy those evidences which the police has not got yet. Secondly, these corporators can vanish from the city once they get bail and that will be problematic for the case. The police still need some time to interrogate them.”

The defence argued that as the police could not recover proper evidence against the accused, they should be given bail.

The corporators have now moved the high court for their bail application.

A sessions court of Thane had remanded all the four in judicial custody on December 14 till December 28, after the police failed to show any progress in the investigation.

Builder Parmar, who committed suicide earlier this year citing harassment by Thane city corporators and TMC officials, has named the four corporators in his letter. On Friday chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has demanded to add Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) case against the accused who were responsible for Parmar’s death.