Child beating case: Playgroup teacher withdraws pre-arrest bail plea

MUMBAI: A playgroup teacher, accused of beating toddlers, petitioned the Bombay high court for pre-arrest bail only to withdraw after the HC said either withdraw or it would reject it.
On April 15, additional sessions judge NL Kale in the city had rejected the pre-arrest bail plea of Jinal Chheda, 42, and she had approached the HC.
Calling the acts "heinous and against society”, the sessions court had rejected similar pleas of two women teachers accused of cruelty and assault on children at a Kandivli playgroup.
The rejection orders had cited the CCTV footage from January this year to March 27 of the premises to say children were noticeably “brutally beaten" and photographs showed kids aged two to four years old were mistreated in the institute by the two teachers.
An offence was registered under the Juvenile Justice Act against the duo at the Kandivli police Station.
On Friday, before the HC single Judge bench of Justice Anuja Prabhudessai, for the complainant, lawyers Mrunmayee Chowkidar and Tejas Deshpande sought to intervene and opposed grant of any relief saying the trial court denial was justified.
The trial court had found prima facie material on record to draw an inference that "due to very cruel behaviour" of the teacher, those little children are in depression and now not ready to go to school.
Justice Prabhudessai was not inclined to grant any relief to Chheda who through her lawyer Sushrita Daga, then sought to and was allowed to withdraw her application.
The HC order said, "The court having expressed disinclination to grant pre-arrest bail, learned counsel for the applicant seeking leave to withdraw the application" and added, "Application is dismissed as withdrawn."