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<\/p>\nMumbai:\u00a0The Bombay High Court today rejected the pre-arrest bail plea of a corporator in Pune district in a case of alleged abetment of suicide of a real estate broker over a property dispute.<\/p>\n
NCP leader and corporator Deepak Mankar had approached the high court after a sessions court in Pune rejected his anticipatory bail application on June 6.<\/p>\n
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Earlier this month, the Pune Police had lodged a case against Mankar and six others for allegedly abetting the suicide of real estate broker Jitendra Jagtap, who took the extreme step earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The victim had left a purported suicide note in which he named the accused persons responsible for his death.<\/p>\n
Justice Mridula Bhatkar today rejected Mankar’s plea while observing that the charges levelled against him were of serious nature.<\/p>\n
According to the FIR lodged by Jitendra Jagtap’s son Jayesh, his father knew Mankar and was taking care of a plot of land at Rasta Peth in Pune since about a decade.<\/p>\n
The FIR stated that Mankar along with a builder, Vasant Karnataki, was allegedly putting pressure on Jagtap to give up possession of the land in their favour by signing some blank documents.<\/p>\n
The accused persons even threatened Jagtap with dire consequences. This drove him to commit suicide\u00a0by jumping in front of a moving train on the tracks near B T Kawade Road in Pune on June 2, the FIR stated.<\/p>\n
However, Mankar in his anticipatory bail plea claimed that he along with Karnataki were legal owners of the land.<\/p>\n
The plea mentioned that Karnataki’s firm Try Builders had allegedly entered into an agreement with another realty company over development rights.<\/p>\n
Mankar in his plea also said they were only seeking return of the land, and that making such a demand cannot be construed as abetment to suicide.<\/p>\n
Moreover, Mankar had given an application to the police on June 1, complaining that Jagtap was demanding money to vacate the land, the plea said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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