Nalapad

Vidvat

Mallya Hospital

Tomy Sabastian

Sabastian

CCTV

Shyam Sundar

Whether Mohammed Hariswill remain in jail till his judicial custody gets over on March 7 or walks out on bail before that will be decided on Tuesday, but what became clear on Monday that every fact will be twisted to suit and protect the guilty.Nalapad and his six friends are accused of assaultingL, a management graduate, at Farzi Café on February 17 night. So severe was the assault that Vidvat suffered multiple rib fractures, in the nose and skull. After beating Vidvat to a pulp in the café and then in UB City’s parking lot, Nalapad and his friends then followed through and landed up at, an hour after Vidvat was admitted there.However, Nalapad’s lawyerclaimed during Nalapad’s bail hearing on Monday that Vidvat had first assaulted his client. He also claimed that Vidvat fell flat on his face while attacking his client and that was why his face was swollen. He added that the attack was not pre-planned and his client and his friends were not packing weapons.claimed that Nalapad and his friends had gone to Farzi Café to have dinner when they had an argument with Vidvat. Beer bottles, water bottles and ice buckets were used in the attack. He said that the police had collected shards of glass and the ice pail as evidence. He also cited Nalapad’s confessions, in which he stated that Vidvat punched him first and claimed that Nalapad’s friends then punched and kicked Vidvat. Everything happened in three to four minutes and the entirefootage is now in police custody. He also said his client had gone to the hospital not to attack Vidvat, but to check on his condition.Special public prosecutor, who is representing Vidvat, started off by taking a swipe at his colleague. He said that despite being punched by Nalapad, slapped and kicked by his friends, Vidvat sustained injuries only when he ‘fell’.He strongly objected to Nalapad’s bail saying: “The accused persons are suspected to be having connections with crime world and mafia elements. This angle of the matter is also being probed. Hence, it is not all desirable at this stage for bailing out the accused.”He also demolished the defence lawyer’s claims one by one, saying: “The injured victim Vidvat has sustained grave injuries and is still under intense treatment at Mallya Hospital and he is still not in position to give a statement.“There has been prima-facie evidence that the accused persons tried to kill the victim by seriously assaulting him with lethal objects.“There is prima-facie proof of the fact that accused persons acted absolutely mercilessly as they assaulted him despite knowing that he was already injured and he was so weak that he could not even shield himself from the blows of the accused.“The cold-bloodedness and regretless behavior of the accused persons and their clear intention to kill the victim was further clear by their act of following the injured till Mallya Hospital emergency ward where he was being attended for traumatic care and attempting to kill even at there and meting out severe threats to finishing the life of the victim.Many lawyers and mediapersons had shuffled into the 63rd Sessions Court at the ACMM court premises to hear two well-known lawyers slug it out for a case that has caught Bengaluru’s fancy; the attack was so severe and invited such a massive backlash from law-abiding citizens that Nalapad’s father, Shanthinagar MLA NA Haris, had to apologise in the Assembly and promise that he would counsel his son.