Bombay court quashes writs in Kini case

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shivajirao Dhumal has dismissed two petitions against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's nephew Raj in the Ramesh Kini case.

The petitions have been filed by social worker Pushpa Bhave, pleading that the case be registered as a murder conspiracy and not a suicide as has been insisted by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The judge, however, felt there was no sufficient ground for proceeding in the case and he dismissed the complaints as per the provisions of the criminal procedure code.

Besides Thackeray, the petition names nine others, accusing them of conspiring to murder Kini and destroying evidence after committing the offence.

Ramesh Kini, a resident of Laxmi Nivas in Hindu Colony, Dadar in north central Bombay, was found dead on July 23 last year at Alka theatre in Pune.

His wife Sheela Kini charged Laxmichand and Suman Shah, who owned the flat where the Kinis lived, and Raj Thackeray with killing her husband.

UNI