The second accused in the case involving murder of a 19-year-old student has claimed innocence and filed a bail plea in the sessions court on Monday. Shree Jogdhankar has claimed that his injuries were caused when some people at the New Year’s Eve party attacked him, and that he was being framed by the police. Earlier, Diya Padalkar had said that she was wrongly accused in the case, and applied for bail. The court will hear Jogdhankar’s bail plea on February 17, along with Padalkar’s application.

Jogdhankar’s bail application filed by his lawyer Mahesh Vaswani, stated, “At the party, some people attacked him and he got hurt badly. He left Bhagwati Heights, as per the CCTV footage, with grievous injuries, and some of his friends took him to Sion hospital where he received stitches. He received a phone call from Yash Bihari Ahuja that Jhanavi was injured and admitted to Bhabha Hospital... and he rushed there, and later to Khar police station.”