SC: No question of anticipatory bail
Even as the Karnataka police finally arrests PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani in connection with the July 2008 Bengaluru bomb blasts, he made a last ditch effort to get pre-arrest bail from the Supreme Court, which expressed its inability to entertain his petition as it was rendered infructuous with his arrest.
Before his counsel Pinaki Mishra could make his submission before a bench of Justices Markandey Katju and T.S. Thakur, Karnataka’s counsel Sanjay Hegde said, “He has been arrested and there is no question of anticipatory bail to him.”
As the bench told Mr Mishra that the only option left before his client now was to approach the competent trial court in Karnataka for regular bail, he pleaded that a direction should be issued to the trial judge to dispose of his petition on August 18 itself.
“How it can be done in post-haste manner. The anticipatory bail petition cannot be converted into a regular bail plea to pass such an order,” the apex court said.
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Conspiracy to finish me off: Madani
Age Correspondent
Thiruvananthapuram
Aug. 17: People’s Democratic Party chairman Abdul Nasser Madani bid a tearful goodbye to the children at the orphanage in Anwa-rasserry, Kollam, and told mediapersons he was going to Karnataka with no hope of returning alive. “For all I know, I will be implicated in other false cases,” he said. “This is a conspiracy to finish me off.” Meanwhile, state home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said the Kerala police had done its duty properly and with restraint. “The Karnataka and Gujarat governments have their own special agendas and we cannot be party to that,” he said. “We have carried out our legal obligation without creating law and order problems.”
He added that the Kerala police had been patient since it did not want to enter the orphanage and trigger violence.
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