GP Sippy's grandsons held after pub brawl

Swati Deshpande / TNN / Feb 4, 2006, 00:50 IST

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Shaan Ranjit Uttamsingh and Sameer, were arrested on Wednesday for assaulting a businessman's son inside the pub.

GP Sippy's grandsons held after pub brawl

MUMBAI: What started as a night out at the swish Hard Rock Cafe at Lower Parel ended with a stay at the police lock-up for Shaan Ranjit Uttamsingh and his brother Sameer, grandsons of film producer G P Sippy. The duo was arrested on Wednesday for assaulting a businessman's son inside the pub.
On Thursday, a metropolitan court at Dadar refused them bail and remanded them to police custody till February 6 for allegedly attacking and "grievously" injuring the son of businessman Ashok Mittal at the pub on Saturday night.
The offence invoked under the IPC is non-bailable and attracts up to 10 years in prison as punishment. This is the second time that the 20 something Shaan��Sippy's daughter's son��has been arrested.
In 2003, he along with three others, including Farhan Azmi, son of Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi and Bonnie Chhabria, son of car designer Dilip Chhabria, were detained on charges of drug possession in the UAE...

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The complaint filed by 29-year-old V A Mittal, said two men attacked him without provocation inside the crowded pub at around 11.30 pm on Saturday.
He said he was chatting with friends when someone tapped him on his shoulder and indicated that they wanted to draw the attention of someone else in front of him.
The FIR stated that soon he was surrounded by four men who asked him who he was. Mittal replied by asking who the four were. Immediately, a "knife slashed on his lips" and he was beaten with broken glass and fisted, said the FIR filed on January 30.

Mittal is now recovering from plastic surgery which involved 12 stitches for the deep gash on his lips. He also complained that the bouncers at the pub helped him out but did not call the police or throw out the men who attacked him.
Meanwhile, in a bail plea on Thursday, the Sippy brothers contended that the police were trying to shield the "influential" Mittal and had applied an excessively serious charge against them...
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Their defence was that they were trying to intervene and help a girl, who was allegedly being harassed by Mittal at the pub. Her FIR stated that Mittal was harassing her and had pushed and kicked her.
Crime counsel Majeed Memon, who represented Mittal assisted by advocate Bipin Joshi, told the magistrate that "there was an increase in instances of young boys from rich families going berserk thinking they were a law unto themselves."
Memon opposed bail stating that the police investigation was at a crucial and initial stage with the assault weapon yet to be recovered, co-accused to be traced and other tests to be carried out.
He noted that a counter complaint was filed belatedly as a "camouflage", after the Sippys were arrested, by a girl called Kainaz Mehta against Mittal.
For Hard Rock Cafe, yet to formally inaugurated, the incident comes as unwanted publicity it could do without.

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Swati Deshpande

Swati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, where she has been covering courts for over a decade. She is passionate about law and works towards enlightening people about their statutory, legal and fundamental rights. She makes it her job to decipher for the public the truth, be it in an intricate civil dispute or in a gruesome criminal case.

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