MUMBAI: Observing that a suicide case of a man running a hotel paints an “unfortunate and grim” picture of the havoc wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic on the restaurant industry, the Bombay high court granted interim pre-arrest bail to a duo who owned the business.
Though a suicide note accused the two of pressuring him, in her order Justice Bharati Dangre said that prima facie it was an instance of how a common man had suffered on account of the economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic.
The duo had petitioned the high court after their plea for anticipatory bail in the abetment to suicide case was rejected by a lower court.
