After failing to secure bail from the lower court in the case of police horse Shaktiman sustaining injury during a BJP protest, Mussoorie MlA Ganesh Joshi on Monday filed a bail plea in the district sessions court on Monday. The hearing of the plea is expected to be held on Tuesday.
The MlA filed the plea in the wake of his earlier bail plea, filed at the court of Additional Chief Judicial magistrate, Dehradun regarding the case being rejected on Saturday.
Dehradun police had arrested Joshi on Friday on the charge of assaulting the horse during BJP’s Vidhan Sabha Gherao rally on March 14. He was later sent to Suddhowala Jail. Notably, Joshi was on Friday produced in the court, Vikasnagar (Dakrani) by the police from where he was sent to Suddhwoala jail for 14- day judicial custody. In another development, Nainital High Court has ordered BJP leader Jogender Pundir to surrender before the lower court within a week. Pundir may file a petition seeking bail from the lower court after surrendering in the lower court, it is learnt. Earlier, police had raided the house of Pundir but he was not present. Police came back empty hand
ed after BJP supporters and leaders shouted slogans against police administration after gathering at his house.
As reported earlier, police had taken a suo moto initiative over the assault on the horse and a case under sections 429/188/353/147/332/148 of IPC, 7 law Criminal Amendment Act and under section 11 (l) of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act had been registered against MlA Joshi, Jogendra Pundir and other BJP members in Nehru Colony Police Station on March 14.