thiruvananthapuram a sessions court on friday denied the bail pleas of eight ngo union members who were remanded in judicial custody on charges of destruction of public property at sbis treasury branch this is the second time their bail application was rejected their bail pleas were rejected last friday by a magistrate courtngo union state committee member suresh babu and suresh kumar gst department pk binukumar audit department ms sreevalsan treasury department ka bijuraj health department anil kumar civil supplies department harilal technical education directorate and asokan treasury directorate are the accused they were arrested by the police on charges of barging into sbis treasury branch and vandalizing the managers cabin on january 9 the second day of the nationwide general strike observed by trade unionsdismissing their bail pleas the court observed that they were government servants and despite this fact they resorted to destroying public property which was unacceptable the court observed that if granted bail the accused might try to influence witnesses in the case through intimidation as they had strong political supportas many as 15 persons were arraigned as accused in the case by cantonment police after examining cctv visuals police are yet to nab seven more accusedharilal and asokan surrendered before the police on january 10 the rest were arrested on january 14 there was a delay in catching the accused despite the availability of visual evidence and as a result the police were volubly criticized it was alleged that police delayed the arrests so that cpm district leadership could settle the case by arriving at a compromisethe party allegedly tried to hold talks with bank authorities and offered to pay compensation the offer was rejected the property loss at the bank was pegged at rs 15 lakh