Bombay High Court grants bail to students in high-profile suicide case | Mumbai News

Kalyan: After more than two years after a student allegedly jumped from a building due to alleged sexual harassment and blackmail by eight students in Kalyan, Bombay High Court promised bail to four of the suspects.
In June 2022, Kolsewadi police in Kalyan arrested the eight students, including a girl, in connection with the suicide of a girl who jumped from the third floor of an apartment where she lived. The girl was blackmailed by the suspect, who sexually abused her by using her obscene video for a year and a half.
The arrested suspects are Vijay Yadav, Pramay Tiwari, Shivam Pandey, Nikhil Mishra, Anand Dubey, Nikhil Mishra, Krishna Jaiswal and Kajal Jaiswal. Krishna and Kajal are siblings.
In this case, the police initially registered a report of accidental death. Later, suicide notes found in the ‘Notes App’ on the victim’s phone revealed that the suspect sexually and mentally harassed her until she committed suicide.
In this case, the Supreme Court had earlier granted bail to four accused. While related to four accused, after the lower court rejected bail, Yadav, Tiwari, Pandey and Mishra moved lawyer Sana Khan, representing four of the accused, to the Bombay High Court.
In the Supreme Court, Khan argued that even if the available material is taken into account, there are numerous discrepancies and contradictions, indicating that the applicants were wrongly implicated. She further alleged that the victim was attracted to accused Vijay Yadav and when she found out that he was getting married, she committed suicide a day earlier.
The suspect’s lawyer has argued that the phone, in which the contents of the note-taking app were found, was moved to another location from June 12, 2022 to June 15, 2022. The victim’s maternal uncle has a shop for sales of phones, indicating that the mobile itself has been tampered with and the content of the app could not have been the basis for registering the FIR.
After the argument, Judge Manish Pitale, while hearing the bail application, made out a prima facie case in favor of the accused. The judge noted: “…They (accused) have spent about two years and four months in prison, and charges are yet to be filed. Therefore, the court is inclined to grant the requests.”