Kollam: PDP chairman Abdul Nasser Madani has claimed that he was innocent in the cases charged against him. Delivering an emotional speech at the prayer congregation held at Anvarssery in Sasthamkotta on Eid day, he described his sufferings during the last 15 years as an undertrial prisoner in Coimbatore and Bangalore and sweared over Quran that he was not involved in any of the anti-national activities that he was charged with.
Madani also condemned the protest and attack at Nedumbasssery airport by the PDP activists on Tuesday following Indigo’s refusal to allow him to board the flight from Bengaluru. The protesters had also shattered the glass panes of the airlines in Kochi. Madani was on Thursday taken to a private hospital in Kollam for cardiac check-up.
Madani was arrested by the Kerala police and handed over to the Bengaluru police on August 17, 2010 while on Ramzan fasting as an undertrial prisoner in connection with the Bangalore serial blasts and was lodged in Parapanna Agrahara prison.
He was in jail for at least five years before getting conditional bail for five days in May 2015 to visit his ailing father. In the Coimbatore blast case, Madani was arrested in March 1998 by the Kerala police and handed over to the Tamil Nadu police. He was in jail for ten years before he was acquitted in the case.
