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When the session court in Mumbai rejected the bail application of Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan on October 20, his lawyer filed a petition before the Bombay High Court on the same day and the court agreed to hear it on October 26.
A section of lawyers is now demanding parity on the preferential listing of the case as they allege that their clients’ bail application has been pending in different matters for several months and the High Court is not giving a date to hear them.
“We have no problem with the early hearing of Aryan Khan’s case but why is the High Court treating different cases differently so far as giving dates to hear bail application is concerned,” Anand S Jondhale, a Supreme Court advocate who also practices in the Bombay High Court, said.
Jondhale alleges that one of his clients has been in jail for several months and the Bombay High Court is not giving a date to hear the bail application.
“The law in the country doesn’t say that a Bollywood star’s son case will be heard on priority whereas other accused will languish in jail for an indefinite period,” he added.
Another advocate Lopez Douglas, who practices in Bombay High Court, has been requesting the court to list his client Visirikapally Raja Rao’s bail since October 13 but the court hasn’t given any date yet.
Rao, a government employee in Telangana, wanted to adopt a boy but the adoption agency cheated and framed him in an abduction case. He has been in jail for more than two months and he might lose his job if his case will not be heard on priority.
“I don’t say that the court should give me any relief. I want the court to hear my case on merit and pass an order. If it rejects it, at least I can go to the Supreme Court with my plea. My client has no option but to be in jail for a false allegation,” Douglas said. He added, “Why is being an ordinary citizen a crime in this country?”
Advocate Amrit Pal Singh Khalsa has a similar grievance. His client Akash Ajit Nikam alias Akya has been in jail since September 2015 in an allegedly false murder case.
“In the past six years, the police has been able to file only the charge-sheet. I filed my bail application on May 25, 2021, and I have mentioned my case 15 times before the court. I have demanded to list my clients’ case early but the court hasn’t given any date yet,” Khalsa said.
