A legal bid by Salim Mehajer to force his former council to sell him a multimillion-dollar parcel of land in Lidcombe has been thrown out of court after he failed repeatedly to produce documents to the other side.

The property developer and former deputy mayor of Auburn has been in jail since January 24 after he was charged with perverting the course of justice and conspiring to cheat or defraud in relation to an allegedly staged car crash.

Salim Mehajer refused to give his former council access to documents on his laptop. Credit:Daniel Munoz

The 31-year-old made a third bid for bail on Wednesday but was knocked back by the Local Court.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court dismissed an unrelated court case brought by one of Mehajer's companies, Sydney Constructions and Developments, against Cumberland Council, into which Auburn Council was amalgamated in May 2016.