Session court grants bail to 68 Nagpur riots accused
This decision follows June 25 order by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, which granted bail to nine others in the same case.
All 68 were granted conditional bail with a surety of Rs1 lakh each. Conditions include reporting to the local police station twice a week and fully cooperating with the investigation and trial. Many of the accused had not received physical copies of the order by Monday evening.
Additional sessions judge AR Kulkarni cited similarities with the HC's observations to approve the bail applications.
The 68 accused argued that their arrests were based solely on unverified intelligence inputs without corroborative evidence.
However, the bail hearing for Faheem Khan, identified as the key conspirator in multiple FIRs filed across various police stations, is scheduled for July 4.
"We were arrested without any concrete proof. The police acted on mere confidential tips and we were not even identified in the test identification parade," the accused contended in their bail applications filed through counsels Asif Qureshi, Rafiq Akbani, Ashwin Ingole, and Shahbaz Siddiqui.
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They also claimed they were not members of the WhatsApp group 'Sunny Youth Force', which is allegedly linked to riot mastermind Faheem Khan.
The prosecution argued that the applicants formed an unlawful assembly at Bhaldarpura square, armed with deadly weapons and stones, and attacked police personnel. They were accused of using petrol bombs, hurling abuses at officers, and causing damage to public and police vehicles parked on the road.
Earlier, the Bombay HC's Nagpur bench had granted bail to Mohd Raheel Zakir Khan and eight others. Building on that precedent, 68 additional individuals, including Mohd Harish Mohd Ismail, Mohd Shahnawaz Shaikh, Mohd Yusuf Shaikh, and Naseem Salim Shaikh, sought relief from the sessions court.
District government pleader Nitin Telgote said Ganeshpeth police had booked the accused under various provisions of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including rioting, Arms Act, Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, Maharashtra Defacement of Property Act, and Maharashtra Police Act.
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