Rejecting the bail application of 43-year-old stock trader, Pintoo Sharma, who was jailed early last year for killing Mira Road resident Ganesh Koladkar and chopping his body into pieces, additional sessions judge 1­ of Vasai sessions court, A U Kadam, said that if the accused was released at this stage, then the possibility of tampering with prosecution evidence could not be ruled out. Assistant public prosecutor, K M Khandagale took strong objection to Sharma's application and said that the prosecution case was based on strong circumstantial evidence. In the bail application, defence counsel, Siddhesh Naik, had told court, 'There is no direct evidence against Sharma. The investigating agency has not shown that the pieces of flesh found from the spot were of the deceased."

Naik told the court that the accused had not taken the said flat in Virar on rent. "It was in possession of the deceased (Koladkar). He (Sharma) used to go there to meet him. He has been unnecessarily roped in the case with false allegations," he added.