Retired cop denied bail in constable son's murder case

A Dindoshi sessions court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of 60-year-old retired police constable Gulab Galande accused of killing his own son, also a constable, as it found that there is “high possibility” of his influencing the eye-witnesses, who are family members.

As per the police complaint at Powai Police Station, the man allegedly killed his alcoholic son Harish by assaulting with a sickle on his head two to three times during a scuffle that at home.

Three of his family members - his wife, his daughterin-law, who is the wife of the deceased and another son - are eye-witnesses in the case. The deceased would allegedly abuse family members in an inebriated state and had flung a beer bottle at his father when the latter had tried to intervene to save Harish's wife from his attack. Additional Sessions Judge SU Baghele said in his order that there is direct proof against the cop and as eye-witnesses are family members of the applicant, there is every likelihood of the applicant tampering with the evidence, by influencing them, either by coercion or on account of emotional attachment.