By IANS,
New Delhi : Delhi High Court Friday granted bail for a month to Irshad Ali, who has been allegedly framed by police as a suspected terrorist.
Justice M.C. Garg granted bail to Irshad Ali on his furnishing a bail bond of Rs.50,000.
The court directed him to mark his attendance every Monday at the local police station and not to leave the country without its permission.
Ali, along with Mohammed Qamar, was picked up by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from the inter-state bus terminus at Kashmere Gate in February 2006.
Police alleged they were members of the Kashmiri militant outfit Al Badr and said pistols, RDX, detonators and other ammunition had been recovered from them.
During the hearing of the case, police and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had taken contradictory stands.
The CBI in its report on closing the case, filed last November, had concluded they were innocent and recommended filing a case against three police officials for implicating them by planting arms and explosives on them.
The trial court, however, did not agree with the closure report and decided in February 2009 to continue with the prosecution of the two men.
Ali’s counsel M. Sufian Siddiqui then moved the high court against the lower court’s order. He submitted that the CBI had conclusively demolished the entire case of the police with cogent evidence.
The Special Cell had said Ali and Qamar were in touch with Baig, a militant in Pakistan-administered Kashmir who heads the Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front.
The Special Cell had said the duo’s links with Baig were unearthed by police inspector M.C. Sharma, who was killed in a shootout with terrorists at Batla House in south Delhi last year.
Police said Sharma had found that Ali was in touch with Baig and other terrorists Jan 23, 2006.
However, the Special Cell in its charge sheet filed in a lower court May 6, 2006 had not mentioned the duo’s links with Baig.