ahmedabad the gujarat high court on wednesday rejected a plea filed by the accused tarun jinaraj in the 2003 sajni nair murder case he had sought temporary bail to deal with the financial crisis of his mother annamma chacko who lives in an oldage home refusing to entertain the plea hc judge mk thakker said as the mother is receiving a pension of rs 34000 per month as stated by her and because the accused was arrested after a long period this court is not inclined to entertain this application hence this application is rejected jinaraj had challenged a sessions courts order which rejected his temporary bail plea in april he had sought bail saying that his mother was cheated out of rs 24 lakh by someone he wanted to go out and help her he mentioned in his application sent through jail authorities the lower court also rejected the bail plea after the prosecution opposed it saying that if released even temporarily jinaraj may disappear to evade the trial following the objection the court rejected the bail plea jinaraj was arrested in 2018 after the police traced him to bengalurujinarajs lawyer claimed an alibi to assert that jinaraj had nothing to do with his wifes murder he submitted that by the time the murder took place on february 14 2003 jinaraj had gone to meet his brother and later to buy a cake and a soft toy