The Bombay High Court on June 10 rejected the plea for anticipatory bail by two Nationalist Congress Party leaders in connection with the attack on the house of the editor of Loksatta newspaper, Kumar Ketkar. Justice V C Daga refused to give anticipatory bail to Tanaji Shinde, General Secretary of NCP and Vinayak Mete, vice-president of NCP, asking them to first approach a lower court for relief.