New Delhi:
Due to the deteriorating character of the society, nowadays people are not ready to stand up for the truth, the Supreme Court has seen why it has asked the Maharashtra government why it was trusting a large number of witnesses for oral testimony in the 2017 Bhiwandi corporator’s case.
A bench of Justice Surya Kant and N. Kotiswar Singh was listening to the bail argument of the alleged chief conspiracy Prashant Bhaskar Mahatre in the Congress corporator murder case.
The bench directed the state counsel to present a list of important witnesses, which he plans to investigate the accused to bring home the sentence of the accused.
“Due to the deteriorating character of the society, people are not ready to stand for the truth nowadays. Why are you rely on the testimony of so many witnesses? Yes, there is a danger of gangsters who pressurize the gantas, who later have no witness protection program in this country,” The state government’s counsel said that they need to investigate 75 witnesses.
The bench said that once it presents a list of important witnesses in the case of the state government, it will fix a time-line for the rapid completion of the test.
The state government counsel said that during the hearing of the bail petition by the Bombay High Court, the prosecution has investigated 14 witnesses, of which 10 have become hostile.
The bench asked the lawyer about the criminal antacidants of Mahatre, in which he presented that the accused was booked in more than a dozen cases.
Mahatre’s counsel said that he was acquitted in several cases and was lodged against him and urged the court to bail him as he has been in jail since 2017.
The bench told Mahatre’s lawyer, “Do not expect a miracle from here. We wanted your case to be quick.
Justice Kant said that the court was not monitoring the case in technical terms, but was maintaining it, so that the case would be accelerated.
The Bombay High Court on 7 February rejected Mahatre’s bail argument, “… Confasselve statements of all the accused individuals indicate that the said applicant can be called the main conspirator in the current case.” It mentioned a statement by the driver of Mahatre stating that he was a long -time political rivalry with him as the victim’s cousin and even on the earlier occasion, the said applicant assaulted the victim in 2013, along with others.
The High Court said, “… The content on the record makes a prima facie case as being the main conspirator against the applicant, which inspired other accused persons to join him, so that he died as a result to start a cruel attack on the victim. According to the FIR, according to the FIR, a corporator, a corporator of Congress party in Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation, a three-time Congress party’s Congress Party’s Manoj Mahatre, 2017, 2017. Ko was brutally attacked by the firearms as well as by sickles and choppers, injuring him at the place of the incident.
The FIR lodged by Manoj’s driver said that after the attack, the accused persons ran away from the spot and some of them ran into a sharp car, waiting out to help get out.
The police later arrested the victim’s cousin, Prashant Bhaskar Mahatre and seven other people in the case.
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