mumbai bombay high court on monday rejected a plea by sandeep lahoriya to transfer ongoing trial in the 2013 murder of his father sunil lahoriya a real estate developer out of thane sessions judge rr vaishnavs court to any other court the hc however directed that to address lahoriyas grievance the trial court should liberally consider his plea for cctv footage to be viewed if the cctv footage has the necessary section 65b certificate under information technology act of authenticity it may be played towards the end of the triala bench of justices s s shinde and manish pitale said a case was not made out to transfer the trial and to revisit an earlier order of the hc of august 2019 by which the trial was transferred specifically to judge vaishnav the sc had confirmed that orderthe bench however directed judge vaishnav to complete trial expeditiously in a fair and proper mannerreal estate developer lahoriya was killed in a gunfire and the accused include navi mumbai builder suresh bijlani they are charged with murder and other offences under maharashtra control of organised crime act mcocalahoriyas lawyers himanshu kode and amey lambhate said cctv footage showing his dad was alive when he reached hospital wasnt permitted by trial court despite a request made by the special public prosecutor during trial kode had submitted in hc that there was even a heated arguments between the judge and prosecutor and that it went to the stage that the judge left the dais and rejected the applications from his chamberhe submitted the said state of affairs were brought to the notice of the department of law and judiciary by specific letters addressed by the spp and that therefore all this was a matter of recordhe also questioned the manner in which bail applications of two accused were allowed and submitted also that the trial court did not record complaints made by witnesses of threats being received from accused and hence the hc recorded that he had vehemently submitted a transfer of the trial to another courtapprehension of bias expressed by lahoriya was mischievous deliberate and only with a view to delay the proceedings argued senior counsel rajiv chavan senior appearing for accused mahesh bijlani presently lodged at thane central jailallegations against the judge are imaginary and fanciful argued chavanchavan submitted that the transfer plea was only to further delay the proceedingsso that accused continue to languish in jail he said even in december 2018 the hc had directed that the trial be conducted on daytoday basis the supreme court too had said so yet the trial was still pending and it was being dragged at the instance of the petitioner lahoriya advocate ashwin thool appearing for suresh bijlani presently on bail advocate girish agarwal for francis chauri in thane central jail and advocate d v sawant for another incarcerated accused also opposed the transfer plea adopting chavans submissionsthe prosecution supported lahoriyas transferoftrial plea before the hc special public prosecutor aruna pai argued