A sessions court in Gurgaon has refused to grant bail to Colonel Trinayan Saikia, GM security and safety at DLF, who has been accused of causing the death of a man in the Cyber Greens lift mishap case due to negligence.

Nishant Sharma (26), an employee with Sapients Gurgaon, was left critically injured on April 7 after he was trapped in the lift he was travelling in. He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital three days later.

Saikia had surrendered before the magisterial court earlier this month and had also applied for bail. The magistrate, however, dismissed his bail application saying the facts of the case revealed that the incident attracted stricter provisions of the IPC relating to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Saikia had challenged this order before sessions judge Ashok Bhardwaj, who dismissed his application on Friday. An FIR in the case has named four persons, including Saikia. The police have also booked the accused for tampering with evidence by deleting images of the incident and wiping blood stains from the spot.

The police have, however, not arrested any other accused.

Moreover, C K Sharma, counsel for Nishant Sharma’s family, has accused the police of trying to shield the other accused. “The police are intentionally not arresting them for reasons best known to them. They have also not booked them for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. It is all because the accused belong to a big corporate house,” Sharma told Newsline.