Following the application made by Vijay Palande, the Esplanade court on Tuesday directed Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria to present the station diary on February 23. The court has also asked Unit VIII in-charge inspector Deepak Phatangre to remain present in the court that day.
Following the application made by Vijay Palande, the Esplanade court on Tuesday directed Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria to present the station diary on February 23. The court has also asked Unit VIII in-charge inspector Deepak Phatangre to remain present in the court that day.
Palande had recently moved court seeking mobile call details and cell phone tower locations of six crime branch cops. Palande is accused of killing film producer Karan Kakkar and a senior citizen, businessman Arun Tikku in 2012.
In his application, Palande had stated that he wanted mobile call details and cell ID location information of inspectors Phatangre, Sanjay Shinde, Mahadev Nimbalkar and constables Santosh Shinde, Shyam Ayare, Vikas Patil and Amol Deshpande from the period of April 9 till April 11, 2012.
The team of Unit VIII had gone to Satara to investigate the murder case of Oshiwara police station involving Palande. Palande and his associate Manoj Gajkosh were arrested from ST stand at Satara, while they were planning to flee.
While being brought to the crime branch office, Palande had escaped police custody from Andheri (E). A case was registered in this regard with the Andheri police station.
Palande was later arrested by a police after few hours from Churchgate area. Custody of Palande and his associates Gajkosh and Dhananjay Shinde were then given to Oshiwara police for further probe. The case was later handed over to the Bandra unit of the crime branch.
Chargesheets have been filed in both cases (Oshiwara and Andheri) by the police.
Palande had earlier sought information of mobile records and cell tower locations through RTI, which were declined by the cops who cited that mobile phones were personal and do not fall under the purview of RTI. The cops had also stated that it would be curbing their personal freedom, and puts their families at risk.
Representing Palande, advocate Ajay Dubey said that his client had also sought the station diary so that the details of his arrest and the escape story could come out. "My client never fled police custody and was in touch with the police. He has been framed in the case. The court has issued notice to the police commissioner and has given a search warrant to produce station diary before the court," Dubey added.
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