Mumbai, July 18: Taking suo motu cognisance, the Bombay High Court on Saturday stayed the bail granted by a lower court to Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre, accused of assaulting doctors at a municipal hospital in Thane district, and asked him to surrender before the police by Sunday evening.
A bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Ravindra V Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad, in a special sitting on Saturday, took suo motu cognisance of the news reports considering the “gravity and seriousness” of the issue.
A court in Thane district on July 14 granted bail to Mhatre, a corporator of the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).
The politician and his aides were arrested for allegedly assaulting two doctors and nurses at a civic-run hospital in Dombivli on the night of July 6 after a family was advised to shift a newborn to another facility.
The HC stayed the order passed by the court in Kalyan granting bail to Mhatre, calling it “perverse”.
The HC directed Mhatre to surrender before the police by Sunday evening, failing which procedure for attaching his immovable properties can be initiated. (PTI)
