BELAGAVI
A court in Belagavi has rejected the bail application of Amirsuhail Shakilsab Sanadi (26), the accused in the death of former Ponda MLA Lavoo Mamledar (69).
According to police, the bail application came up for hearing on Friday in the court of the 10th District Judge, where it was rejected for various reasons.
According to the police, the bail was rejected on grounds that the accused had committed a heinous crime assaulting a noted public personality of a stature of an ex-MLA at a public place. The other reasons cited for the rejections of the bail stated that the accused is likely to abscond if granted bail and that he is also likely to tamper, lure or threaten the eyewitnesses if given bail.
Accordingly, Sanadi will remain in under the judicial custody at Hindalga Central Prison here till the police files the chargesheet in the court which may take a couple of weeks.
Mamledar had collapsed and died shortly after he was assaulted by Sanadi, a cab driver, after an altercation over a trivial issue outside the Srinivas Residency Hotel, where Mamledar was staying, at Khade Bazaar in Belagavi on February 15.
Sanadi was nabbed by the hotel staff and later arrested by the police soon after the incident.
Belagavi police has received the autopsy report of the deceased former Ponda MLA, but the cause of death has been kept pending for chemical analysis report and histopathology reports.
