Ghatkopar hoarding collapse: Bombay Excessive Court docket refuses to provide aid to Bhavesh Bhinde

The Bombay Excessive Court docket on Friday dismissed the petition for launch filed by Bhavesh Bhinde, the director of the promoting agency, Ego Media Personal Restricted, that erected the large hoarding that collapsed in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar space throughout heavy rains and storm, taking the lives of 15 and injuring round 70 individuals on May 13. Looking for rapid launch, Bhinde, who’s arrested within the case, has claimed in his petition that his arrest was unlawful.

Passing the order, a Division Bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande stated there aren’t any deserves within the case. “We discover no authorized infirmity. The bottom of unlawful arrest and detention by the petitioner is nothing however a pretend. There isn’t any impairment within the process. We don’t discover any deserves within the arguments of the applicant. The petition stands dismissed,” the Bench stated. An in depth copy of the order just isn’t made out there but.

Showing for Bhinde, advocate Rizwan Service provider argued earlier than the Bench and stated that Mumbai Police held his shopper (Bhinde) in a day lengthy unlawful custody. Bhinde, who was arrested from Udaipur on Might 16, was dropped at Mumbai after which arrested on Might 17 whereas, his arrest was truly made on Might 16, Mr. Service provider argued. He additionally stated that his shopper was not furnished with the grounds of arrest in written as mandated by the Supreme Court docket in Prabir Purkayastha’s case including that his shopper was in an unlawful detention for a whole day.

The petition by Bhinde has urged the judges to quash the FIR registered towards him within the hoarding collapse incident that triggered demise and harm to a number of individuals and that it was an “act of God” and never his fault.

“The IMD bulletin did not predict the extreme mud storms with gusty winds that hit Mumbai on the fateful day. On account of the aforesaid, the stated hoarding collapsed and never as a result of improper, defective building of the identical as wrongly, falsely alleged within the stated FIR. The sudden and unprecedented wind speeds of as much as 96 kmph triggered the hoarding to break down, an occasion for which neither Bhavesh Bhinde nor Ego Media Pvt Ltd might be held accountable. Furthermore, the hoarding was legally erected with all requisite permissions,” the petition learn.

Within the FIR, Bhinde has been booked for culpable murder not amounting to homicide.

Countering Mr. Service provider’s claims and arguments, Public Prosecutor, Hiten Venegaonkar contended that the police had adopted all of the required procedures whereas arresting the accused, together with signatures of impartial witnesses on the arrest doc. He was solely apprehended in Rajasthan on Might 16 the place he was hiding by altering his identification to flee his arrest. Formally he was arrested on Might 17 after he was dropped at Mumbai. Bhinde was handed over with the grounds of arrest earlier than he was taken into custody, Mr. Venegaonkar stated.