The bail plea of Mussoorie MlA Ganesh Joshi, filed at the court of additional chief judicial magistrate, Dehradun regarding the case of the injury received the State mounted police horse Shaktimaan, was 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 had been later sent to Suddhowala Jail. Notably, Joshi had been on Friday produced in the court, Vikasnagar (Dakrani) by the police from where he had been sent to Suddhwoala jail for 14- day judicial custody. Sources said that bail plea of Joshi will be filed in the court of district session on Monday.
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 and other BJP members in Nehru Colony Police Station on March 14.
Police sources further said that MlA Joshi was kept in a separate barrack in the Suddhowala jail campus. He is being kept alone, away from other inmates of the jail for security reasons, sources added.