"You were an absconder earlier also. Your conduct makes you dis-entitled to anticipatory bail," the Supreme Court had said on Monday.
The 1982 batch police officer had evaded the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for several months.
The top court had also expressed its anger at high-profile people who kept seeking relief, taking up the time that could be devoted to poor litigants waiting for justice.
"This court has become a safe haven for such people. We have not been able to hear criminal appeals pending before us for years. We are not even devoting five per cent of our time for the common man. It's a sorry state of affairs. I am willing to say it on oath," said Justice Chauhan observed.
The senior officer had been largely missing since the CBI last month named him as one of the seven Gujarat policemen allegedly involved in the killing of 19-year-old Ishrat, her friend Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, and two other persons, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.
Mr Pande was Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Ahmedabad, at the time. The Crime Branch officers had claimed the four were terrorists on a mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
He surfaced last month, making a couple of dramatic appearances in the court, first on a stretcher and then in a wheelchair. But after his bail plea was rejected by the Gujarat High Court last week, he went underground again.
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