Excerpt from DNA , reported by Mayura Janwalkar on Thursday, November 19, 2009: Read Full Article
The accused in the Tiss gang rape case in April will have a longer stay in prison. While one on them, Anish Borkataki, withdrew his bail application, the Bombay high court, on Wednesday, rejected the application of Dev Colabawala.
Justice VM Kanade said that the case of the two young men, in jail for the last seven months, was “not as straight forward” as their counsels made it out to be. When the court indicated that it was not likely to grant bail to the accused, Borkataki withdrew his bail application. Since, Colabawala did not follow suit, the court rejected his plea.
The duo had contended that they were only present at Cafe XO in Govandi with the victim and the other accused. They also said that they were in the Andheri flat where the alleged incident took place, but did not commit the crime.
