The main accused Jitender Rana has applied for bail and the hearing is due on July 7. For those of you that can turn up in Sewri for the hearing, please do so.
Here is what Benjamin Fernandes had to say about the upcoming hearing and the accused and his family members.
"Rana has applied for bail. His bail plea will be heard on 7 Jul at 2.45 pm as also the charges will be read out to him and the other 3 accused. The next court date will be an important one in this court case.
The accused were brought to court today, 2 hours before the court session during which time they spent socializing with their friends and family. It looked like they were at a family picnic, every one of them were happy to be there. The accused were kept inside the police van right outside the sewri court and their families had gathered around the grilled windows and were having a long chat. I was sitting in a car with tinted windows parked right ahead of the police van, so I had a close view of the entire gathering.
When the court session was about to begin the whole group went up to the 3rd floor and waited outside the court room, none of them entered the court room though, as their lawyer had advised the crowd not to enter the court room. I sat on the first bench at the entrance to the court room, so that I could take a close look at each of the accused. And as they were were brought in, I locked eyes with each of them one by one by one as they entered the court room. Rana put on an innocent smile to the judge when his lawyer submitted his bail application, but he could not hide the sinister viciousness in his killers' eyes.
I am hoping that the bail plea is turned down by Judge SP Deshmukh, considering the viciousness of this double murder, and with Rana's connections he may well disappear and go hide with his boss in Malaysia as is usually the case with criminals on the loose."
This case is about the freedom that we, Bombayites, deserve. Freedom for women from sexual harassment, freedom for young people to take a walk in the evenings without being attacked by criminals. We need to stand by the families of Keenan and Reuben. Those two brave young men could have been any of us.
How scary is the fact that people with pending murder cases are roaming the streets of this city? I am talking about the Ranas and Palandes of Bombay, who use the loopholes in the antiquated Indian legal system to carry out their reign of terror with the loose backing of politicians and some rogue policemen!
Here is what Benjamin Fernandes had to say about the upcoming hearing and the accused and his family members.
"Rana has applied for bail. His bail plea will be heard on 7 Jul at 2.45 pm as also the charges will be read out to him and the other 3 accused. The next court date will be an important one in this court case.
The accused were brought to court today, 2 hours before the court session during which time they spent socializing with their friends and family. It looked like they were at a family picnic, every one of them were happy to be there. The accused were kept inside the police van right outside the sewri court and their families had gathered around the grilled windows and were having a long chat. I was sitting in a car with tinted windows parked right ahead of the police van, so I had a close view of the entire gathering.
When the court session was about to begin the whole group went up to the 3rd floor and waited outside the court room, none of them entered the court room though, as their lawyer had advised the crowd not to enter the court room. I sat on the first bench at the entrance to the court room, so that I could take a close look at each of the accused. And as they were were brought in, I locked eyes with each of them one by one by one as they entered the court room. Rana put on an innocent smile to the judge when his lawyer submitted his bail application, but he could not hide the sinister viciousness in his killers' eyes.
I am hoping that the bail plea is turned down by Judge SP Deshmukh, considering the viciousness of this double murder, and with Rana's connections he may well disappear and go hide with his boss in Malaysia as is usually the case with criminals on the loose."
This case is about the freedom that we, Bombayites, deserve. Freedom for women from sexual harassment, freedom for young people to take a walk in the evenings without being attacked by criminals. We need to stand by the families of Keenan and Reuben. Those two brave young men could have been any of us.
How scary is the fact that people with pending murder cases are roaming the streets of this city? I am talking about the Ranas and Palandes of Bombay, who use the loopholes in the antiquated Indian legal system to carry out their reign of terror with the loose backing of politicians and some rogue policemen!
Law and judgement is only to prevent one person from doing wrong things.Punishing is not a motive of law.
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