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The bail plea was heard in the presence of his representative. The probe agency in its reply sought time for opposing the bail plea citing that the investigation officer was busy in New Delhi and that the Bombay high court was monitoring the Dabholkar murder case among other reasons. Chandel replied in the negative when the court asked if the CBI had filed application before the special UAPA court to seek additional time for filing chargesheet against the accused.CBI additional superintendent of police S R Singh was not present before the court. But no chargesheet against them was filed under the IPC, nor the CBI filed a report seeking additional time to file supplementary chargesheet under the UAPA till date.He argued that the detention of the accused had become illegal and they were entitled to bail on the grounds of default in filing supplementary chargesheet against them. PUNE: A magisterial court on Thursday reserved its order till Friday on the bail application of three accused — Amol Kale Rakesh Bangera and Amit Digwekar — in the rationalist Narendra Dabholkar murder case The accused, through their lawyer Dharma Raj Chandel, on Wednesday applied for bail under Section 167 (2) of the CrPC as their detention in judicial custody had become illegal.The bail application read that the probe agency had not sought additional time from the court to file supplementary chargesheet against the accused under Section 43 (D) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.When the bail plea came up for hearing before judicial magistrate first class S M A Sayyed, Chandel submitted that Bangera and Digwekar were arrested on September 1 and Kale was held two days later..