The 21-year-old has also been asked to deposit his passport with sessions court
MUMBAI: Manish Khatau, who grievously injured a police constable in a reckless driving case of August 2005, may perhaps not reach in time to attend his business management lectures in London.
The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the order of the vacation judge staying his re-arrest on December 29 and granted him two weeks time to file an application before the Session Court to expedite his trail. Though the court extended the relief period, the 21-year-old has been directed to deposit his passport with the Sessions court at Sewree.
After the state government’s petition challenging Khatau’s acquittal by the Sessions court was admitted by the High Court, the government sought action under section 390 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) for re-arresting Khatau. On December 29, he filed an application in the Sessions court at Sewree seeking a stay on his arrest.
When the court deferred and sent him to judicial custody for a day, he immediately approached the HC and was granted interim relief by the vacation judge till the matter was heard before a regular bench. When the case was heard in the HC on Monday, a division bench of Justice JN Patel and Justice RS Mohite said that the matter should have been heard by the Sessions court if the application for stay on arrest was made there. However, Khatau’s counsel VR Manohar told the court that after the HC granted interim relief on December 29, the application made before the Sessions court was withdrawn on December 31. The court then extended his interim relief period and directed him to go back to the Sessions Court.
Khatau, dressed like a typical college-goer in jeans and a grey shirt, was flanked by his parents as they anxiously waited for a court order. On August 14, 2005 at 2:15 am, Manish Khatau rammed into barricades put up by police in front of the police gymkhana near Marine Drive, prior to Independence Day nakabandi. One of the barricades flung across and hit police constable Jitendra Rokde on the forehead and he was seriously injured.
Manish is the son of industrialist Mahendra Khatau of Khatau Mills.
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