27-Aug-2024 08:37 PM
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Mumbai, Aug 27 (Reporter) Justice Bharati Dangre of the Bombay High Court refused to hear the plea by dismissed cop Sachin Waze, who has been in jail since March 2022 in an alleged corruption case linked to former state Home minister Anil Deshmukh and others.
Waze had sent the handwritten bail petition from the Taloja central prison.
Justice Dangre who recused herself from hearing the plea, said that she had recused herself from hearing the matter related to Anil Deshmukh and did not realise that Waze’s matter was related to that case.
A bench of Justices Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande had closed the matter for orders on August 14, which was to be passed on Tuesday.
However, when the matter was called out, Justice Dangre recused herself.
“In Anil Deshmukh’s matter, I said not before me. I did not realise it was the same matter. Not to place before the bench of Bharati Dangre,” the judge said while requesting to place the plea before the Chief Justice who would assign it to another bench.
Following this, it will now be placed for hearing before another division bench...////...