SHIV Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre, accused of assaulting doctors at a municipal hospital in Thane district, surrendered before the police on Sunday, a day after the Bombay High Court stayed the bail granted to him by the lower court. Mhatre surrendered before the Dombivli police and was taken to the Kalyan magistrate court, which remanded him to judicial custody till August 3, an official said. The High Court on Saturday took suo motu cognisance and stayed the bail granted by the Kalyan court to Mhatre, calling its July 14 order “perverse”. The bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra V Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad noted that the magistrate court took the issue very lightly and did not even consider Mhatre’s criminal antecedents.

 

The bench also cancelled the bail granted to four other assailants who were booked along with Mhatre. Mhatre, a corporator of the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), and his aides were arrested for allegedly assaulting two doctors and nurses at a civic-run hospital in Dombivli on the night of July 6 after a family was advised to shift a newborn to another facility. The police registered a case against Mhatre and four others in connection with the assault at the hospital. The police said that they arrested one of the accused women involved in the assault on Sunday