Gangster denied bail for possessing phone in jail

Vadodara: A sessions court on Monday denied bail to Ahmedabad gangster Gova Rabari in connection with a brawl he had with a jail staffer after he was found possessing a mobile phone in Vadodara Central Jail on January 4.
Rabari, who is currently at the central jail in Bhuj, had sought bail on August 14 claiming innocence. On the morning of January 4, jail staffers found Rabari hiding a phone under his bedsheet. He was pretending to be asleep and did not move the bed sheet when the jail sepoys tried to wake him up. When a jail staffer named Sukha Vasava used force against Rabari, he made comments on his caste and also hurled abuses at Vasava.
Vasava had lodged an offence against Rabari on the same afternoon at Raopura police station under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and other charges. In the court, Rabari claimed that the offence was registered to harass him and he made no comments against any jail staffer.
In response to his bail applications, district government pleader Anil Desai argued that Rabari is a headstrong person and made comments against Vasava’s caste as he knew him personally. Rabari was in Vadodara Central Jail since 2012.
The court of additional sessions judge S C Gandhi upheld Desai’s arguments and rejected Rabari’s bail plea.