By TCN News,
Kochi: The bail conditions of Soofiya Maudany, 10th accused in the Kalamassery bus-burning case, have been relaxed by the NIA special court in Kochi last day. Soofiya can now go to Bengaluru to meet husband Abdunnasir Maudany who is in jail in connection with the 2008 Bengaluru blast case.
Soofiya was arrested in connection with the bus-burning case in December 2009 and was granted bail by the Ernakulam district court on condition that she should not leave the Ernakulam district. NIA special court judge S Vijayakumar has now relaxed that condition allowing Soofiya to leave the district, though for only a short span of time between March 14 and 18.
Soofiya was present in the court on March 7, as part of the procedures following the submission of chargesheet in the case. It was the first time she attended the court after having been granted bail in December 2009. Meanwhile, the NIA had requested the court to cancel all the bails granted to the accused as the UAPA has been charged afresh on all accused. But the NIA has not yet reportedly submitted an official request to the court in this regard. The UAPA was not charged when some of the accused including Soofiya Maudany were granted bail by the district and the magistrate courts. There are 13 persons accused in the case, among who the prime accused Thadiyantavide Naseer is in judicial custody. Two are absconding also. The case will be considered on March 21.
The incident leading to the case took place in 2005. The case has it that a bus of the Tamil Nadu Transport Corporation was burned by the accused, in retaliation against the tortures reportedly meted out to Abdunnasir Maudany in the Coimbatore jail. PDP chairman Maudany was then in the Coimbatore jail in connection with the Coimbatore blast in which he came out innocent in 2007. But now again, Maudany is in Bengaluru jail in connection with the 2008 Bengaluru blasts.