A particular bench has been constituted by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna to listen to the interim bail plea of Tahir Hussain, a accused in a case of February 2020 riots linked to the demise of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma. The bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Sandeep Mehta within the Supreme Courtroom will hear Hussain’s bail plea on January 28.
Tahir Hussain, an AIMIM candidate from Mustafabad seat in Delhi, has sought interim bail for the election marketing campaign for the upcoming Delhi Meeting polls. Earlier, a Supreme Courtroom bench of two-judges, Justice Pankaj Mittal and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, listening to Tahir’s interim bail plea had given a cut up verdict.
Justice Pankaj Mittal was not in favor of granting bail to Hussain whereas Justice Amanullah was of the opinion that bail might be granted with sure circumstances.
Observing the fitting to contest elections was not a elementary proper, Justice Mithal mentioned permitting interim bail might open a Pandora’s field as each undertrial would invoke the identical floor.
“Within the occasion interim bails are to be allowed for functions of contesting elections, it can open a Pandora’s field. Since elections are all yr spherical, each undertrial would include the plea that he desires to take part in elections and due to this fact be granted interim bail. This might open floodgates, which in our opinion cannot be permitted,” he mentioned.
The Delhi Excessive Courtroom on January 14 granted custody parole to Hussain to file nomination papers from the Mustafabad constituency on an AIMIM ticket.
It, nonetheless, refused his plea for interim bail from January 14 to February 9 to struggle polls, saying the gravity of allegations in opposition to Hussain, being the principle perpetrator within the violence, which resulted within the demise of a number of individuals, couldn’t be neglected.
The excessive court docket mentioned about 11 FIRs had been registered in opposition to him in reference to the riots and he was admittedly in custody in a associated cash laundering case and UAPA case.
(With PTI inputs)