Sheezan Khan files Bail Application in the Bombay High Court, listed for 24 January for admission

MUMBAI: Tv actor Sheezan Khan’s lawyers have filed a bail application in the Bombay High Court praying for bail, after a court at Vasai in the Palghar district of Maharashtra rejected his bail application.

According to the Bombay High Court website, the matter which is at a pre-admission stage is listed for January 24th for admission. The HC website shows the date of filing as Monday, the 17th of January. A day earlier, on 16th January another application was filed by the lawyers, which is also listed on the website.

It is unlikely that the matter will come up for hearing and arguments in the next 10 days, given the public holidays in between.

It is not yet known if the certified copy of the Vasai Sessions court bail rejection order is available as it is not listed on the court website.

Without the certified copy of the Vasai Sessions court order, the Bombay High court is unlikely to proceed with the hearing or for that matter even admission of the matter, opined legal experts.

Sheezan Khan was arrested u/s 306 of the Indian Penal Code for abetment to suicide. The case is sessions triable, which means a JMFC or Magistrate’s court does not have jurisdiction in the matter and cannot hear his bail application.

After he was remanded to judicial custody, his lawyers filed for bail in the Vasai Add. Sessions & District court, which was subsequently rejected.

Additional Sessions Judge RD Deshpande refused to grant bail to the 28-year-old, who was arrested on December 25, on the grounds that Sheezan Khan had tried to influence a witness (his so-called secret girlfriend) and tried to destroy evidence in the form of WhatsApp chats by deleting them.

Advocates Shailendra Mishra and Sharad Rai, who appeared for Khan before the Vasai court, had told media they will move the Bombay High Court against the rejection of bail.

Tunisha Sharma – the 20-year-old victim who committed suicide by hanging herself, allegedly after a break up with Khan, was in a relationship with Khan for about four months.

Her family has held Khan responsible for the death, saying that the two were in a relationship and she was distraught and depressed after the breakup.

Khan’s family denied the allegations, saying that the claims were being propagated by Sharma’s uncle, who once worked as her manager, but was fired from the job and nursed a personal grudge against Khan.