India, July 23 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday pulled up the Maharashtra Police for allegedly extending "VIP treatment" to Shiv Sena councillor Ramesh Mhatre, arrested for allegedly assaulting three doctors at a municipal hospital in Dombivli. It also questioned the State government over the police's initial decision to produce him before a magistrate through video conferencing after his arrest.

"We want the name of the officer who, after arresting the accused, came up with this innovative idea of producing him through VC. We will call the Commissioner of Police, Thane, to court," a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra V Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad said while hearing a suo motu petition.

The court had on July 18 sta...