Mumbai hoarding collapse: HC rejects Bhavesh Bhinde's plea against arrest

The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed the petition filed by advertising firm director Bhavesh Bhinde, arrested in the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse case, in which he claimed that his arrest was illegal and sought immediate release. A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande said it has not found any legal infirmity and no impairment in the procedure mandated while arresting a person. "We find no legal infirmity. The ground of illegal arrest and detention by the petitioner is nothing but a faux. There is no impairment in the procedure. The petition is dismissed," the court said. Bhinde sought that the FIR registered against him be quashed claiming that the hoarding collapse of May 13, which killed 17 persons, was an "act of God" and he be released on interim bail pending hearing of the plea. He has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. His lawyer Rizwan Merchant had argued that Bhinde was arrested from Udaipur on May 16 and was then ...