Overview
- Former RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary has filed a fresh bail plea claiming brain-related illness and a recent four-month stay in a mental institution.
- Additional Public Prosecutor Sudhir Sapkale told the court the case is grave with potential for a death sentence and that granting bail could harm the ongoing trial.
- Umesa Khatoon, wife of victim Asghar Shaikh, has intervened to oppose bail, citing eyewitness accounts and the recovery of the weapon and cartridges and warning of evidence tampering.
- A witness RPF constable testified that he saw Chaudhary walking on the tracks with a rifle and heard him threaten, “Don’t come in my way or follow me, otherwise I will shoot you,” before the accused was caught at Mira Road.
- The court has not ruled on bail and will continue hearings later this month as more witnesses are examined in the Mumbai sessions court.