MUMBAI, Feb. 14 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected a fresh bail plea filed by alleged gangster Jagdish Kailash Shejav also known as Dhananjay Shinde, in the 2012 Oshiwara murder of an unidentified man. Shinde is an accomplice of Vijay Palande, accused of committing several murders. The court said there was "no significant change in circumstances" since his earlier bail plea was rejected and noted that the trial is at the "threshold of being concluded". Justice Neela Gokhale noted that a co-ordinate bench had dismissed Shinde's previous bail plea on August 25 last year and that the order "remains unchallenged". Since then, the court observed that the prosecution's evidence and the accused's statement have been recorded and only the defence witnesses remain to be examined. In these circumstances, the court said it was "not a fit case to grant bail". The prosecution pointed out that while serving life imprisonment in an earlier murder case, he was granted 14 days' parole in February 2010 but failed to surrender and "remained at large for 767 days". During this period, the state alleged, he committed multiple murders. The current case stems from a series of killings uncovered in 2012. The investigation into the murder of Delhi-based businessman Arunkumar Tikku led the Oshiwara police to the killing of aspiring film producer Karan Kakkad. During the probe, police recovered a human skull and bones from Kumbharli Ghat near Chiplun. Forensic tests revealed that while some remains matched Kakkad's DNA, the skull did not, leading to the registration of a separate murder case of an "unknown person" at Oshiwara police station. Shinde has been in custody since August 16, 2012. His counsel argued that he has spent over 13 years in jail and that the trial may not conclude soon, as co-accused Vijay Palande intends to examine several defence witnesses including police commissioner Deven Bharti and senior forensic experts. In his bail plea, Shinde described the case as based entirely on circumstantial evidence and alleged inconsistencies in forensic findings. "Considering the stage of trial; the fact that the bail application of the applicant was rejected by this court on merits only five months ago; the propensity of the applicant to abscond. and his antecedents. I am not inclined to allow the present application," the court said....