Mumbai Live News: The Bombay High Court’s detailed order granting bail to Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha was made available on Saturday. In the 14-page order, the court has said that there is no material to infer that applicants hatched a conspiracy to commit offence.
“There is hardly any positive evidence on record to convince this Court that all the accused persons with common intention agreed to commit unlawful act. Rather the investigation carried out till this date suggests that Applicant/Accused nos. 1 & 2 (Aryan and Merchant) were travelling independent of Applicant/Accused no. 3 (Dhamecha) and there was no meeting of minds on the aforesaid issue,” the court said.
It has said that it is difficult to infer at this stage that applicants are involved in an offence of collecting drugs of commercial quantity. “After having gone through the Whats-App chats extracted from Applicant/Accused no. 1’s phone, nothing objectionable could be noticed to suggest that Applicant nos. 1 & 2 or all three applicants alongwith other Accused persons in agreement have meeting of minds and have hatched conspiracy committing the offence in question,” Bombay High Court on chats shown by NCB allegedly recovered from Aryan’s phone.
“Even if it is appreciated, the maximum punishment prescribed is not more than one year for such offence. Applicants have already suffered incarceration for almost 25 days. The Applicants were not even subjected to medical examination so as to determine whether at the relevant time, they had consumed drugs,” it added.
In other news, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repealing of 3 farm bills, the Congress has decided to organise victory marches for the farmers across Maharashtra on Saturday. The main celebration is at state Congress headquarters at Tilak Bhavan. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackery on Friday said that it must learn from the “humiliation” the farm bills caused and take Opposition parties and other stakeholders into confidence before drafting and enacting such legislations.
Mumbai Live News: Congress to hold victory marches in Maha; Uddhav Thackeray says Centre should learn from ‘humiliation’ caused by farm laws; death toll in Ahmednagar civil hospital fire rises to 13.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-live-covid-cases-cyber-crimes-air-pollution-traffic-7628691/
