Pravin Mahajan, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of his elder brother and BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan, has been denied parole by the Nashik Divisional Commissioner. Pravin had sought parole as his wife Sarangi has to undergo a surgery but the application was rejected earlier this week.
A magistrate has thrice rejected Pravin's plea to appoint a panel of doctors for undergoing psychiatric tests without giving any reason
Sessions judge Abhay Thipsay denied him bail after considering the police submission that a prima facie case had been made out against Pravin and that he may abscond if he was granted liberty.
His plea for psychiatric tests has been rejected.
Forty-eight-year-old Pravin was held guilty on Monday for murder and trespassing into his brother's house with an intention to commit an offence punishable with death.
Pravin Mahajan, who lived with his wife and two children in a modest apartment in Maharashtra's Thane district, was an unknown figure until the morning of April 22, 2006 when he shot his brother and prominent Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod.
Pravin Mahajan, serving a life-term for the murder of his brother and BJP leader Pramod Mahajan and currently on a 14-day parole, suffered a brain haemorrhage and was admitted to a private hospital.
Pravin was produced before a magistrate who committed the case to sessions court for trial.
The court dismissed Pravin's plea of mental instability.
Pravin Mahajan, arrested for shooting his elder brother and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, has been booked in another case for cheating a city businessman of Rs 8.5 lakh in a bus purchase deal.
Pravin Mahajan, who has been charged with the murder of his brother, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, dropped a bombshell in the trial court when he leveled sensational allegations against Pramod. The judge ordered that Mahajan's testimony, both as a witness and as an accused, be recorded in-camera.
The charge-sheet was filed by police in the court of a magistrate at Bhoiwada near Dadar in Mumbai.
On Pravin's plea, the court also asked the jail authorities to provide the accused with all the periodicals and newspapers prescribed in the jail manual.
Pravin (50) -- serving a life term for the murder of his brother and BJP leader Pramod Mahajan -- was admitted in the Jupiter Hospital last Friday after he complained of fatigue and severe headache at home, and is still in an unconscious condition.
A Mumbai sessions court on Monday convicted Pravin Mahajan of the murder of his elder brother and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan. The judge relied on the statements of Pramod's wife Rekha, servant Mahesh and Pramod's own statement made to the BJP leader and brother-in-law Gopinath Munde while on his way to the hospital.
A sessions court on Friday deferred till September 8 the trial of Pravin Mahajan, who is facing charges of killing his elder brother and Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Pramod Mahajan.
Pravin Mahajan, the brother of former Bharatiya Janata party Member of Parliament Pramod Mahajan, who was suffering from brain haemorrhage, passed away on Wednesday afternoon. Pravin had slipped into coma after the brain haemorrhage.
"I saw Pravin Mahajan fire at Pramod with a pistol that he had," she told the court, which started the trial in the case on Wednesday.
Appearing in the dock for the first time in the Pramod Mahajan murder case, prime accused Pravin Mahajan, who surrendered to the police with his pistol after the Bharatiya Janata Party leader was gunned down, on Monday claimed he did not kill his elder brother. Pravin, 46, told a sessions court recording his evidence that he came to know about his brother's hospitalisation and death only from the newspapers.
While pointing towards Pravin Mahajan, who was sitting in the dock, Poonam told the court that he had killed her father and she wanted justice to prevail. It is for this reason that she had come to depose before the court, she said.
Proceedings in the case have been adjourned to January 31 when the prosecution is expected to submit a list of documents it will rely on to prove its case.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis orchestrated a significant victory for the BJP in the recent civic polls, solidifying his position as a key strategist and influential leader within the party.
Pravin is accused of shooting Pramod multiple times with his licensed gun at the latter's Worli residence, resulting in his death.
Sources said Pravin appeared a deeply frustrated man inflicted by an inferiority complex and that could have prompted him to make an attempt on the life of the BJP leader.
A heated argument between Ponda and special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam over scheduling of arguments of the witnesses forced Ponda to withdraw from the high-profile case
The prosecution in the murder trial of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan has sought the death penalty for the accused, his younger brother Pravin Mahajan.
Earlier, the court has rejected his plea to return the car to his family saying investigations were underway. Pravin had pleaded that the car was not used in the crime and hence it may be returned to his family.
Raj Babbar and Anupam Kher may be part of the lead cast.
Money was the motive behind Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan's murder as the accused, his brother Pravin, wanted to start a transport business, the prosecution told the court on Monday. "The demands were being made by Pravin Mahajan from 2004 and the threat SMS was the last blow," Special Public Prosecutor Niteen Pradhan argued.
In the appeal, Pravin said he went to meet Pramod on the morning of April 22, 2006, to tell his brother that his secretary Vivek Moitra was blackmailing him.
The police have received rap on the knuckles from the trial court for "shoddy investigation" into the Pramod Mahajan murder case though the prosecution has managed to secure conviction for accused Pravin.
During the cross-examination of Hanif Tahirali alias Bandukwala who sold the gun to Pravin, it was revealed that the statement recorded on May 12 last year was dated April 12, 2006, which made it prior to the commission of the crime.
Pramod's brother-in-law Gopinath Munde's statement has come as shot in the arm for the prosecutors in the case.
The defence in Pramod Mahajan murder trial on Friday successfully demonstrated that an SMS in mobile phone memory can be tampered with -- after failing in the first attempt.
Sarangi, wife of Pravin Mahajan, the main accused in the Pramod Mahajan murder case, told a court in Mumbai that she had been threatened by persons allegedly from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Sarangi, wife of Pravin Mahajan, on Thursday told the Mumbai sessions court that she had sent the "controversial" SMS to Pramod Mahajan on April 15 last year.
The assailant has surrendered before the police.
The assailant has surrendered before the police.
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