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The constabulary had opposed bail to Bhinde stating that helium is the main culprit and was down the readying to summation the hoarding’s size beyond permissible limits for profits. (File/Express Photo)
Five months aft the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse, a sessions tribunal connected Saturday granted bail to the main accused. Bhavesh Bhinde, the proprietor of Ego Media Pvt Ltd, which installed the hoarding which collapsed causing the decease of 17 persons and injuring 80, was granted bail by the court. Bhinde was arrested by the Mumbai constabulary connected May 17 and charged with sections including culpable homicide not amounting to execution and grievous wounded of the IPC.
The elaborate bid of the tribunal granting bail to Bhinde is yet to beryllium made available. Of the 4 accused, the tribunal has truthful acold granted bail to a structural technologist and contractor. It had rejected the bail plea of Janhavi Marathe, a erstwhile manager of Ego Media, successful August. Her bail plea is pending successful the Bombay High Court. It had besides rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Arshad Khan, a wanted accused. A non-bailable warrant was issued against Khan but helium is yet to beryllium arrested.
The police had opposed bail to Bhinde stating that helium is the main culprit and was down the readying to summation the hoarding’s size beyond permissible limits for profits. The constabulary had claimed that Bhinde was the main conspirator progressive successful falsely portraying that the onshore connected which the hoarding was installed belonged to Indian Railways, to circumvent BMC policies that would person restricted the hoarding’s dimensions. The constabulary had besides claimed that determination was connivance of Bhinde with officials of the Government Railway Police (GRP) and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Bhinde successful his bail plea had said that the unfortunate incidental was purely an ‘act of God’ arsenic determination were unexpected and unprecedented winds connected the time of the incidental connected May 13, which caused the legally built hoarding to collapse. He besides claimed that helium was falsely implicated owed to ‘political vendetta’ and made a scapegoat owed to the Lok Sabha elections successful May. Lawyer Sana Raees Khan representing Bhinde besides submitted that helium was not a manager of the institution astatine the clip of the operation of the hoarding and that they had valid permissions, including from the Commissionerate of the GRP. The lawyer had besides submitted that determination were nary statements to amusement immoderate transgression nexus of Bhinde with immoderate of the GRP officials, oregon immoderate slope transactions to amusement wealth was paid for assistance of permissions to summation the size of the hoarding.
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