Fake encounter: HC rejects bail plea of convicts

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday rejected a bail plea made by three persons convicted for killing Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya in a fake encounter in November 2006.
A bench of Justices P V Hardas and Anuja Prabhu-Desai accepted the contentions of senior counsel Vijay Pradhan, who sought rejection of the bail applications made by Akhil Khan, Hitesh Solanki and Vinayak Shinde.All three are serving out life terms. A Mumbai sessions court had last July awarded life sentence to 21 people, including 13 Mumbai police personnel, convicted for killing Lakhan Bhaiya. The police probe began only when pursuant to high court orders, R V Gupta’s complaint was registered in 2009.