Submit search report copy of Chintan’s Juhu flat, magistrate orders Kandivli police

Mumbai: Produce a copy of the search report or panchnama conducted at the Juhu flat jointly owned by contemporary artists Chintan and Hema Upadhyay, a Borivli magistrate’s court asked the investigating officer from Kandivli police station. Chintan is in judicial custody, along with four others, for their alleged involvement in the murder of Hema and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani. The court rejected Chint-an’s application to seal the Juhu flat and a studio in Andheri (W), fearing false evidence would be planted against him there.The court ordered that only after it gets the panchnama will it decide on handing over a copy to Chintan. tnn