SC grants bail to Pune man booked for murder of undertrial released on Covid-19 parole

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The Supreme Court Tuesday granted bail to a man booked for killing another, who was an undertrial in a murder case and was released from Yerwada jail on provisional parole due to the Covid-19 outbreak in July, 2020.
The deceased, Pravin Satyavan More (25), a resident of area in Rajgad police station jurisdiction, was found murdered at Shivare village in Bhor taluka, Pune district.
Pune Police had booked four persons, including appellant Mahesh Lekawale, for killing More, who was arrested in connection with a murder in 2017 and was released on parole of 45 days due to the Covid-19 outbreak in June, 2020.
According to the prosecution, after being released on parole, More came to his uncle’s residence in Shivare village and on July 6, 2020, four persons, including Lekawale, attacked More with sharp weapons, causing his death. The murder was due to past enmity, the prosecution said. More’s relative, Dashrath Dimble, had lodged the FIR in this case
After the Bombay High Court in September last year rejected Lekawale’s bail plea, he filed an appeal before the apex court.
The High Court had held that “merely because Lekawale has not been attributed to any overt act of assault on More cannot be a ground for releasing him on bail and possibility of Lekawale threatening to intimidate witnesses also cannot be ruled out”.
A bench of Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice Aniruddha Bose of the apex court on July 12 passed an order in his appeal argued through advocate Sana Raees Khan.
Khan argued that as per the FIR, Lekawale, along with three others, had assaulted the deceased, whereas supplementary statement of the complainant said Lekawale was standing near the car at the spot of incident and co-accused fled from the spot in a car driven by him.
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