A local court today rejected the bail application of a city-based builder who is charged with criminal negligence after a make-shift lift at a construction site crashed and six labourers were killed.
Applicant Ketan Shah is a partner in Success Developers Private Limited which jointly built the 22-storey La Sonrisa building in Matunga in central Mumbai where the mishap occurred on January 10.
"The Vikhroli metropolitan magistrate's court rejected Shah's bail plea after the prosecution argued that a magistrate cannot grant bail as Shah is charged with serious offence of `culpable homicide not amounting to murder'", said Shah's lawyer Laxman Kanal.
Kanal had argued that as Shah was in judicial custody, police did not need him for interrogation any longer.
He said that a fresh bail application will be moved before sessions court now.
Meanwhile, the sessions court will hear the anticipatory bail applications of other accused - Boman Irani, Percy Choudhari and Kaushik Shah of Rustomjee Developers and lift contractors Chandresh Mehta and Bipin Singhania - tomorrow.
