The Mumbai Sessions court on Friday granted conditional bail to Diya Padalkar, accused of the murder of her childhood friend Jhanavi Kukreja. The court also rejected the bail plea of the main accused, Shree Jogdhankar. Padalkar was told to not leave the city without informing the court and has to report to Khar police once a month.

After the court granted bail to Padalkar, Jhanavi’s lawyer, Advocate Rizwan Merchant filed an application to stay the bail order for two weeks. This was done in the hopes of buying time to approach the Bombay High Court to challenge the bail.