THANE, July 10 -- A Kalyan court on Thursday rejected the Vishnu Nagar police's request to remand Dombivli hospital assaulter Ramesh Mhatre to their custody, as they failed to physically produce him before it. The court directed the police to bring the Shiv Sena corporator before it in person if they wanted his custody. Mhatre and three of his accomplices were booked for assaulting doctors and hospital staff at the civic-run Shastri Nagar Hospital on Monday night. The gang attacked the medical staff after the latter referred a woman with pregnancy complications to Sion Hospital on account of unavailability of beds in their NICU. The police requested judicial magistrate K S Katkade to allow Mhatre to be produced before the court through video-conferencing, stating that he was hospitalised and his health was not good. The court refused. Mhatre's counsel, advocate A Y Patki, requested the court to grant only one day's police custody, saying that his client was 72 years old and living with a single kidney and his blood pressure and blood sugar had levels shot up due to stress, for which he was being treated. Patki also contended that until Mhatre was produced before the court, he could not be termed as "arrested". He said, "Once he is certified fit, he can be produced before the court, and orders can be passed."...