Bombay high court
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Monday rejected a plea by Sandeep Lahoriya to transfer on-going trial in the 2013 murder of his father Sunil Lahoriya, a real estate developer, out of Thane Sessions Judge RR Vaishnav s court to any other court. The HC however directed that to address Lahoriya s grievance, the trial court should liberally consider his plea for CCTV footage to be viewed. If the CCTV footage has the necessary section 65-B certificate under Information Technology Act, of authenticity, it may be played towards the end of the trial.
A bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish Pitale said a case was “not made out’’ to transfer the trial and to revisit an earlier order of the HC of August 2019 by which the trial was transferred specifically to Judge Vaishnav. The SC had confirmed that order.