Mumbai Bank fraud: Sessions Court reserves order till 25th March on anticipatory bail application of BJP leader Pravin Darekar

A sessions court has reserved for order on Friday, the anticipatory bail application of leader of opposition in the state’s legislative council Pravin Darekar in a forgery case filed against him by an AAP leader.

The complainant Dhananjay Shinde had alleged in his complaint lodged at MRA Marg police station that Darekar had claimed to be a ‘labour’ to become a member of a labour cooperative society. It is this society that had authorized him to represent it in elections to the Mumbai District Cooperative Bank. The AAP leader also alleged that Darekar had disbursed loans when at a position in the bank.

Darekar had claimed in his application for anticipatory bail that the FIR had been lodged with malafide intentions and that the state government was behind the action as he had raised some issues in the house against the NCP leaders Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh, due to which they had to court arrest. He had also claimed that he was indeed a labour as in 1997, when he secured a membership of the labour cooperative, he was not into business and used to live in a Dahisar slum.

The court had granted interim protection to Darekar while the matter was in hearing. On Wednesday, it reserved the plea for order on Friday.