Bhavesh Bhinde has been booked on the cost of culpable murder not amounting to homicide. (File)
Mumbai:
A Mumbai court docket has granted bail to promoting agency director Bhavesh Bhinde, the prime accused within the case of a hoarding collapse within the Ghatkopar space right here that claimed 17 lives in Might this 12 months.
Extra Periods Decide V M Pathade allowed Bhinde’s bail plea on Saturday.
Bhinde, by way of his lawyer Sana Khan, had contended the unlucky incident was an “act of God”, and that he was implicated for “political vendetta”.
The hoarding put in within the Ghatkopar space collapsed as a result of “surprising, uncommon wind velocity” and no fault might be attributed to the applicant (whose agency had put in it), advocate Khan argued.
It was additionally submitted that Bhinde was not the agency’s director on the time of the set up of the large hoarding.
Bhinde has been booked on the cost of culpable murder not amounting to homicide.
The prosecution opposed bail to Bhinde, saying there was sufficient proof to indicate he was actively concerned within the case.
Seventeen individuals, together with a former common supervisor of the Mumbai airport’s Air Visitors Management and his spouse, died after the billboard crashed onto a petroleum pump on Might 13 throughout sudden dusty winds and unseasonal rains.
It was alleged that the hoarding had been put up illegally on railway land.
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