Reliance Industries lawyer Janhavi Gadkar who, through senior advocate Amit Desai, had filed for bail in her drunken driving accident case will remain jailed at least until 24 July because the investigation was not yet complete, reported Times of India and the Hindustan Times but almost no other newspapers.
Desai had won bail for Bollywood superstar Salman Khan on the same day as his trial court conviction in May this year, in a 2002 hit-and-run road accident case that had resulted in one person killed.
The TOI reported:
Richa Khedekar, the magistrate in a Kurla court handed over the bail rejection order in Mehendied hands to her judicial clerk who then pronounced it in a quiet no-nonsense tone, leaving the family and friends of Gadkar’s victims sighing with relief. Gadkar’s mother Sudha a retired senior officer at BEST and her corporate lawyer husband Rahul Sarela estranged and residing in Hyderabad since 2010 were present in court. Earlier this week, Sarela visited his wife in the Byculla women’s prison where she is lodged.
HT reported in a four-paragraph story:
Her team of lawyers said it is preparing to move her bail application again, once the police investigations into the case are completed. One of the members of the team said the probe is almost over and the bail plea will be moved soon.
Gadkar had allegedly killed two victims and injured two more during her drunken driving on Mumbai’s eastern freeway on which she rammed her Audi into a taxi.
Three other fatal accidents killing three and injuring seven have taken place on the same road since the Gadkar accident, reported DNA.
Shortly after Khan’s speedy bail attracted social media outrage, Gadkar too had attracted social and mainstream media vitriol and calls of “poor little rich girl” on Twitter by NDTV anchor Barkha Dutt and “homicidal maniac” on the website DailyO.
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