Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay at Goa today has set aside the order of the Additional District Court to cancel the bail of AAP Goa President Amit Palekar.
The Crime Branch had moved for cancellation of his bail.
During the hearing, Palekar contended that he had prayed for a blanket order to travel abroad, in the application seeking permission to travel to France.
Adv Palekar’s counsel contended that the permission was granted as a blanket and that he had not disappeared.
Palekar said that he had faith in the Judiciary as he had not done anything wrong.
“I have not violated any bail condition. Being a lawyer, I could never make such a foolish mistake,’ said Palekar.
The sessions court in Ponda on Monday (August 26) cancelled the bail granted to Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) state unit chief Amit Palekar in the 2023 Banastarim accident case–which resulted in the death of three persons, after observing that Palekar had violated the condition of not leaving the country without the court’s prior permission.
Palekar was granted conditional bail by the sessions court on September 4, 2023, in connection with the accident which took place in August last year at the Banastarim bridge near Panaji.
