Dinesh Kamath's news item 'Police unable to trace the whereabouts of Bijlani' that was published in Newsband

Police unable to trace the whereabouts of Bijlani

By Dinesh Kamath

NAVI MUMBAI: Builder Suresh Bijlani who is the prime accused in Navi Mumbai builder Sunil Lahoria murder case has once again gone absconding. The Supreme Court had directed the Mumbai police to immediately arrest him.

In May, the session court as well the Bombay high court had rejected his anticipatory bail saying there is no provision of anticipatory bail in a murder case. Bijlani brought the Indore court's order which granted him interim relief on the grounds that his father was ailing. This was just a week after crime branch had filed the chargesheet.

Lahoria's son Sandeep alias Sunny had moved a special leave petition challenging the Indore high Court's last week order. On Wednesday morning the double bench stayed Indore HC's order and directed the Mumbai police to arrest him.

Bijlani earlier had made a statement to a newspaper saying that he has been framed in the case as in dying declaration Lahoria did not take his name since he was so seriously injured that he could not speak.

According to a source, Bijlani might surrender before the Mumbai crime branch but police are not able to trace him in spite of the fact that he had appeared last week with the Indore court's transit anticipatory bail and was regularly seen visiting the crime branch office at Crawford Market.