Beed’s Shantanu Muluk moves pre-arrest bail plea before HC

Aurangabad: Shantanu Muluk, an engineer from Beed against whom a non-bailable arrest warrant has been issued in the Toolkit document case, has moved a plea for transit anticipatory bail before the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court.

When contacted, Muluk's lawyer Satej Jadhav told TOI, "The plea is expected to come up for an urgent hearing before the high court on Tuesday. We have primarily sought the transit pre-arrest bail on the grounds that our client be allowed to travel to Delhi and put up his case before the Delhi courts and safeguard his rights."

According to information posted on the high court website, Muluk's application is in relation to offences under Sections 153-A (promoting enmity between groups) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.

Referring to apprehension about his arrest, Muluk (34) has stated, among other things, that the police raided one of his colleagues in Mumbai on February 11 and arrested another member of his group from Bengaluru on February 13 and took her to Delhi. Besides, a Delhi police team has been stationed in Beed, his native place, for the past three days and has seized various materials from his home.

Jadhav said, "We have prayed to the HC for grant of a transit pre-arrest bail so that our client can travel to Delhi and put up his case before the Delhi courts. He deserves a rightful chance to preserve and safeguard his rights all the while performing his duties and putting the truth before the courts of law in Delhi."