By Abdul Hameed, TwoCircles.net
Mumbai: Former Gujarat cabinet minister Maya Kodnani will have to spend some more days in the jail as the sessions court in Ahmedabad on Friday reportedly adjourned the hearing on her bail plea till April 27.
Kodnani, accused in the Naroda massacre case, approached the court last week seeking release on bail. Earlier the court had sent Kodnani to judicial custody after her police remand came to an end.
As per the media reports when the case was presented before the judge A K Asvani the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team told the court that Kodnani has been accused in serious crimes. The public prosecutor too objected the bail arguing that she might influence the witnesses because she was a politician.
The court while rejecting the bail plea said that it was before time as the chargesheet in the case is yet to be filed. It reportedly scolded the advocate of Kodnani asking why he was in a hurry.
On the occasion the court also referred to the state High Court which had rejected her anticipatory bail petition saying that the case was going on.
The former minister in Narendra Modi cabinet Maya Kodnani allegedly led a mob, distributed swords among them and fired from her pistol, in Naroda Patia and Naroda Gam massacres on February 28 during Gujarat riots 2002. In both the villages 106 Muslims were murdered while 47 others injured.
She along with the co-accused Jaydeep Patil surrendered herself on March 27 before the SIT that had declared them absconder due to their absence on the scheduled hearings on January 29 and 30. Earlier they had managed to get anticipatory bail from a sessions court which the SIT challenged before the High Court.