Artist Chintan Upadhyay, who is serving a sentence for murdering his wife Hema Upadhyay and advocate Harish Bhambhani, has allegedly pleaded for bail from the sessions court on medical grounds citing the COVID-19 situation.

Sources said that his bail application was filed towards the beginning of this month and it was heard by the sessions court on August 20. The court had then asked the jail authorities to submit Chintan's health documents. It had also asked the Crime Branch unit VIII officials investigating the case to present their say in the matter and posted the final hearing for August 31.