By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Bengaluru: PDP chairman Abdunnasir Maudany, who is in jail in connection with the 2008 Bengaluru serial blasts, filed a bail plea in the Karnataka High Court yesterday. The bail plea reportedly says that Maudany was implicated in the case without much evidence against him. The plea will be taken for hearing in two days, said Adv P Usman, Maudany’s consul.
The bail plea reportedly says that even after nearly four months of questioning, the prosecution has not been able to find any evidence against Maudany. The police have completed the investigation and the case has not been transferred to the trial court. The bail plea argues that, in this circumstance, Maudany needed not be kept in prison especially since he won’t have to be questioned further.
The case was transferred from the Bengaluru First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court to the Bengaluru V Fast-Track Sessions Court on December 3 for trial. A bail plea was rejected by the Sessions Court on September 13. The trial of the case is supposed to begin in a month.
Maudany was arrested on August 17 by the Karnataka police from Kerala. After police custody for ten days, he was remanded to judicial custody which was then extended several times. He is now in the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail in Bengaluru. Maudany is 31st accused in the blast case and is alleged to have conspired with the prime accused Thadiyantavide Naseer in Kochi and Kodagu in Karnataka.
Maudany has spent nearly 10 years in jail for his alleged involvement in the 1998 Coimbatore blasts before being released finding him innocent in August 2007. Since then he was under the protection of the Kerala police, by which some policemen accompanied him wherever he travelled in the state. The case against Maudany becomes suspicious in the light of this fact which makes one wonder how he conspired for the blasts when he was under the protection and surveillance of the Kerala police.