The North District and Sessions Court has fixed October 17 as the date for the arguments of framing of charge against celebrity fitness trainer Gaurav Bidre, accused of killing Assistant Professor Gauri Achari on June 23.
The Court will also hear the bail application of the accused on the same day, as he remained present during the hearing on Monday.
The Old Goa police, in its charge sheet before the District Court on September 20 charged Bidre under sections 302 for murder, 365 (kidnapping or abduction of a person with the intent to be kept secretly and wrongfully confined), 342 (wrongful confinement), and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code.
The 303-page charge sheet has 49 witnesses’ statements besides evidence collection from the crime scene and the confession of the accused. The Old Goa police are likely to incorporate additional evidence in a supplementary charge sheet expected soon.
Bidre (36) is accused of strangulating Achari (35) in her car parked in her residential complex in Corlim after which he dumped her body in a jungle in Old Goa.
The accused was upset that she decided to walk out of their friendship. The accused and the victim became friends after she hired him as a personal fitness trainer.
On a fateful evening, Bidre waited in her society and soon after she arrived, he accosted Achari in her car, strangulated her following a rift and shifted her body in his four-wheeler. He dumped her body in a forested area near the Kadamba Bypass, which was recovered by the police during a search following a police complaint filed by her mother.
