Apex court cancels bail of ex-MLA in two murder cases

The Bench also set aside the February 2007 order of the High Court, which had stayed the prosecution of the MLA and asked the trial courts to immediately resume the trial and “take it up on a day-to-day basis and conclude the same within six months.” The Bench took note of the fact that the state’s Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) R R Trivedi, who had been entrusted the task of the MLA’s trial in the lower court, had close links with the MLA and had been derailing the trial in overt and covert manner.

However, the Bench expressed satisfaction over the fact that the state has divested the APP from the task of conducting the MLA’s trial and had appointed another APP for the purpose.

Jadeja is accused of murdering two people, Nilesh Rayani and Vinodrai Singla, in 2004 because of enmity. For these two murders,

Jadeja was facing trial in sessions courts of Gondal and Rajkot in Gujarat.