Dinesh Kamath's news item 'Bijlani desperately continues to try for anticipatory bail' that was published in Newsband

Bijlani desperately continues to try for anticipatory bail

By Dinesh Kamath

NAVI MUMBAI: Suresh Bijlani,  the prime accused in builder Sunil Loharia's murder case and who is on the run, had desperately tried to get an anticipatory bail. Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court had granted Suresh Bijlani 60 days to file for anticipatory bail. Bijlani submitted this order to Mumbai Crime Branch. In fact, Bijlani who has been dodging the police for three months, walked into the police headquarters at Crawford Market and handed over his transit anticipatory bail order issued by the court on Monday.

The order states that he cannot be arrested in these 60 days. But Bijlani’s anticipatory bail plea in the Supreme Court has already been rejected and once the Supreme Court has rejected a plea, a lower court cannot intervene in the matter.

Crime Branch officials are studying the order very closely before taking any action. Bijlani claims to have had no time to apply for the anticipatory bail when the murder case against him was registered in Navi Mumbai since his father was suffering from cancer.

Loharia's son Sunny Kumar pointed out that Bijlani had referred to himself as resident of Navi Mumbai while applying for bail in the Supreme Court while he claimed to be the resident of Indore in his application to Indore bench. Sunny Kumar further said that Bijlani’s father lived in the same building as he did in Navi Mumbai. Sunny Kumar is now looking forward to challenging the Indore court order.

The police feel that it could be part of a gameplan as the Indore order comes a week after the crime branch filed a chargesheet.