Ma’dani to submit anticipatory bail plea in Karnataka HC today

By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,

Bengaluru: Abdunnasir Ma’dani will approach the Karnataka High Court with an anticipatory bail plea today. The Bengaluru fast track sessions court had rejected Ma’dani’s bail plea in the Bengaluru blast case last day. Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan last day said that the state would assist the Karnataka police in the matter of Ma’dani.


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Meanwhile, the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch submitted a report to the Karnataka government seeking its permission to arrest Ma’dani, according to reports. The report also asks the state government to ask the cooperation of the Kerala government in the arrest. The arrest warrant issued against Ma’dani is valid till July 20 after several extensions. The First Additional Chief Judicial Metropolitan Magistrate Court has reportedly directed the investigating team to arrest Ma’dani on or before the date.

PDP working chairman Poonthura Siraj visited state chief minister to explain the situations that led to the rejection of the bail plea of Ma’dani. Siraj also presented to the CM the government documents which show that Ma’dani had not travelled to Kudak. The CM has reportedly promised Siraj of taking an appropriate action after studying the documents. Siraj visited the CM in his official residence on Saturday.

The National Human Rights Commission should interfere in the matter of Ma’dani, asked the public gathering organized by the Solidarity Youth Movement. Political parties and leadership should not keep indifferent towards the injustice meted out to him. Ma’dani was being thrown to the Karnataka government which has written off thousands of cases related to communal riots including those in which Pramod Muthalik was accused, said O Abdurahman, editor of ‘Madhyamam’ daily. Ma’dani is the victim of the decision of the BJP government in Karnataka to play the communal politics like Modi in Gujarat, opined Neelalohithadasan Nadar, BSP leader and former minister. The Solidarity was interfering in the matter as a case of human rights and justice, said P Mujeeb Rahman, Solidarity state president.

Abdunnasir Ma’dani, chairman of Kerala’s People’s Democratic Party, is the 31st accused in the Bengaluru blast case of 2008. A Bengaluru court also issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him. Ma’dani has maintained that he was innocent of the accusation and submitted an anticipatory bail plea in the Bengaluru fast track court. The court postponed considering the case several times and at the same time, extended the warrant also. The court then rejected the plea when considered last Friday.

Ma’dani was accused in the Coimbatore blast case and was in jail for nearly 10 years, but released in 2007 as he was found innocent of the charges. Ma’dani has opined that the Bengaluru blast case also was framed against him just like the Coimbatore case as certain persons in the IB were against him. The police claim that evidence against Ma’dani was collected from Thadiyantavide Naseer, the prime accused in the case. But, Naseer denied the claim and said that he had not said a word against Ma’dani. Another witness named Jose approached court saying that he was forced to sign under something written in Kannada and it had turned out to be his testimony against Ma’dani. However, the court took the arguments of the prosecution and has rejected bail for Ma’dani.

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