Kurar murder case accused’s plea in MCOCA case rejected

Mumbai: Rejecting a plea by multiple murder accused Uday Pathak to keep a MCOCA case against him in abeyance, a special court refuted his claims that he was falsely implicated because he was a non-Maharashtrian and at the instance of political parties.
"Even his contentions regarding being implicated as a non-Maharashtrian and his claims of being implicated at the instance of political parties are not relevant while deciding the present application.In view of these discussions, this court came to the conclusion that the application filed by the accused is not tenable in the eyes of the law before this court," the judge said.
The court rejected his plea on the grounds that it was not maintainable before it. "Though the accused repeatedly contended in the present application that he was not delaying the trial and that the trial in this case may be conducted on a day-to-day basis giving precedence, the hidden intention appears from his entire conduct is that he intended to protract the trial in the present case. If he really wanted to proceed with the trial speedily and on a day-to-day basis, he ought not to have filed this frivolous application in this case and would not have wasted time in prosecuting this application time and again," the judge said.
Pathak was in jail since 2011. Four men, Ganesh Karanje (24), Dinesh Ahire (25), Chetan Dhule (24), and Bharat Kundle (27), went missing in June 2011, following which their families contacted the Kurar police. The crime was unearthed on June 6, 2011, when their partially burnt bodies were found in an abandoned hilly locality of the Appa Pada area near Kurar village.