Supreme Court bench after hearing counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Mr. Rahul Chitnis counsel on behalf of the State of Maharashtra, at length, has observed that petitioner is in jail since last six and half years and there is no likelihood of completion of trial in a reasonable time.
The Supreme Court has asked the Maharashtra government to file the status report in a plea filed by Harshad Purushottam Mehta against the Bombay High Court order which had rejected his bail plea raised on the ground that he has served more than one half of the maximum sentence for the offences he is accused of.