SC Grants Bail to Two IM Operatives After 11 Years
The Bench also noted that one of the co-accused in the case had already been granted bail
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has granted bail to two alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives, holding that their prolonged incarceration was “grossly violative” of the right to liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution.
A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta noted that the accused, Mohd Saquib Ansari and Waqar Azhar, had been in custody since 2014 in connection with a terror case registered by the Delhi Police Special Cell, with no likelihood of an early conclusion of the trial.
“The progress of the trial has been extremely slow and there appears to be no prospect of the trial being concluded in the near future,” the court said.
The Bench also noted that one of the co-accused in the case had already been granted bail.
The order came on pleas filed by Ansari and Azhar challenging a Delhi High Court order passed in April rejecting their bail applications.