Mumbai: 3 yrs on, SC grants salon staffer bail in colleague’s murder case - Times of India

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Mumbai: After being behind bars for over three years, Mumbai salon staffer Khushi Sahjwani accused of strangling a colleague to death in a moving car, got bail from the Supreme Court on Friday. The apex court directed her release on bail, observing that she is a woman and has been behind bars for long, with chargesheet already filed in the case.
Sahjwani, 46, is accused for the murder of salon chain BBlunt employee, Kirti Vyas.
The SC bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and V Balasubramanian did not consider the matter merits, but considered the fact that she is a lady with a minor child and aged parents and that the investigation is also over. The bench directed that she is to be released on conditions to the satisfaction of trial court.
Last year denying her interim emergency bail during the pandemic, Mumbai sessions court had said being a woman was not a sufficient ground for the relief. Her co-acccused a male, is in custody.
Sahjwani and Siddhesh Tamhankar, colleagues of Vyas, are booked for murder, kidnapping for murder, and destruction of evidence.
Vyas went missing on March 16, 2018 after leaving home at Grant Road, for work and was last seen with the two accused in Sahjwani’s car. Few days earlier she had issued Tamhankar a notice to improve his work and put him on review.
Sahjwani, had been lodged at Byculla women’s jail since May 5, 2018 following her arrest.
The SC was hearing her special leave petition in which she was being represented by counsel Yug Chaudhry, against a January 11, 2019 order of the Bombay high court rejecting her bail plea. The HC had said she was not seen in CCTV footage to be getting down at Grant Road station and her phone was switched off near Jijamata Nagar, Worli, while CDR locations of the two accused was shown from Santa Cruz to Wadala Mahul Port Trust between 8.50 pm and9.40 pm that night, according to a preliminary investigation report.
For DCB, CID Mumbai police senior counsel Raja Thakare and state’s counsel Rahul Chitnis opposed her plea on merits, and said no parity can be granted to co-accused.
Her child and elderly parents are “entirely dependent on her’’. The court is yet to frame charge in the case.
Her petition said the case is “entirely dependent on flimsy circumstantial evidence where prosecution evidence shows that the victim was seen alive after she was last seen with” Sahjwani. It adds that a ransom call received by Vyas’ colleague, which police do not say was made either by Sahjwani or co-accused, was not investigated.

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