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The tribunal said that portion 4 others were granted bail earlier, the probe against them is complete, portion Khan's relation is inactive being probed.
IN THE elaborate bid rejecting bail to Arshad Khan, an accused successful the Ghatkopar hoarding illness case, the sessions tribunal has said determination are assorted instances successful the chargesheet which rise suspicion implicit the relation played by suspended IPS serviceman Quaiser Khalid successful the transaction with the company, which installed the alleged amerciable hoarding. The tribunal besides said that the operation of the hoarding, which collapsed wrong a year, was ‘inherently defective’.
Khan’s bail plea was rejected connected January 20 and the elaborate bid was made disposable this week.
The constabulary had claimed that Ego Media Pvt Ltd, which constructed the hoarding, had paid Khan done 36 cheques successful assorted transactions, for acquiring permissions for expanding the size of the hoarding illegally. Khan was a co-director successful a company, wherever Khalid’s woman was besides a director. The hoarding astatine a petrol pump successful Ghatkopar had collapsed aft unseasonal rainfall connected May 13, 2024, causing 17 deaths.
“It appears from the documents connected grounds that the archetypal tender floated by the Government Railway Police (GRP) successful 2020 was for hoarding measuring 40×40 feet and 1 of the conditions of the tender was to get support from the BMC for the hoarding. The tender was allotted to Ego Media Pvt Ltd and seemingly the institution had agreed to those tender conditions. However, it appears that aft the transportation of the past commissioner…when Mr Khalid took complaint arsenic commissioner… the documents were procured successful bid to amusement that the crippled of the onshore belonged to the Railway and not to the authorities authorities truthful arsenic to dispense with the bounds connected the size of the hoarding arsenic good arsenic the request of the support of BMC for the hoarding,” the tribunal said.
The hoarding was constructed measuring 120×120 feet, violating the civic body, BMC’s regulations.
The tribunal besides said that the chargesheet mentions that Ego Media’s Bhavesh Bhinde and Janhavi Marathe, who were granted bail earlier, had issued cheques to Khan ‘at the lawsuit of Khalid’. It referred to a connection by a instrumentality serviceman attached to the GRP commissionerate, stating that a draught was prepared by him which said that the BMC’s support would beryllium required to conception the hoarding, but Khalid had instructed him to alteration the draft.
The tribunal said that portion 4 others were granted bail earlier, the probe against them is complete, portion Khan’s relation is inactive being probed. The tribunal besides said that the accused had the cognition that determination would beryllium disastrous consequences if specified a immense operation collapses owed to defective and substandard prime of construction, arsenic it collapsed wrong a year.
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