Builder Suresh Bijlani again absconding

MUMBAI: Builder Suresh Bijlani who is the prime accused in Navi Mumbai builder Sunil Lahoria murder case has once again gone absconding. Last Wednesday the supreme court set aside the Indore High court's interim bail of 60 days order and directed the Mumbai police to immediately arrest him. on May 17 Indore court had granted him interim relief on the grounds that his father was ailing.
Lahoria's son Sandeep alias Sunny had moved a special leave petition challenging the Indore high court's last week order. In the SLP, Sunny had made the Indore HC and Mumbai crime branch party. On Wednesday morning the double bench of Justice BA Chavan and Deepak Mishra stayed Indore HC's order and directed the Mumbai police to arrest him. Sunny who is in Delhi told TOI that Bijlani while obtaining the interim relief had suppressed the facts. On May 13, the same bench of SC had rejected Bijlani's bail and when this was brought to light, the court immediately stayed the Indore H c's order.'' Said Sunny.
Bijlani was unavailable for comment but he had told TOI last week, that he has been framed in the case as in dying declaration, Lahoria did not take his name as Lahoria was so much brutally injured that he could not speak than how he named him. Bijlani sources said is now planning to surrender before the Mumbai crime branch but police said that he is not traceable. Joint commissioner of police (crime) Himanshu Roy said that they are yet to receive the SC order.
Interestingly Bijlani, who had been dodging police since last three months had appeared last week with the Indore court's transit anticipatory bail and was regularly seen visiting the crime branch office at Crawford Market.
In May, the session court as well the Bombay high court had rejected his anticipatory bail saying there is no provision of anticipatory bail in a murder case. Bijlani brought the Indore court's order just a week after crime branch filed the chargesheet and few days before inspector Ramesh Mahale took voluntary retirement. Mahale was
In the transit anticipatory bail application, Bijlani has claimed himself to be a native of Indore in Madhya Pradesh and has cited that his father is old and ailing and needs to be hospitalized in Mumbai and hence he needs a interim bail for his father's treatement.
Lahoria was shot dead on February 16 outside his Navi Mumbai office, following which shooters Venkatesh Shettiar (35) and Wajid Kureshi (28) and former encounter specialists Emmanuel Amolik were arrested.
Shooter Venkatesh Shettiar's call details show he was in touch with ex-cop Emmanuel Amolik who, in turn, was in contact with Bijlani & architect Anuragh
Garg was the common architect of all five accused builders-Suresh Bijlani, Bhupesh Gupta, S P Agarwal, Sumit Bacchewar and Vijay Gagra-who had crossed swords with Lahoria over alleged illegalities in various projects in Navi Mumbai. While Bacchewar and Gupta have been arrested, the others are not traceable.