By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Pune: The lone convicted person in 2010 German Bakery Blasts case at Pune has approached Bombay High Court for transfer from Yerwada Jail here to Mumbai’s Central prison, expressing apprehension of being killed by the hardened criminals in the jail.
Mirza Himayat Baig (32 Years), who was convicted for death by the Pune’s session court in 2012 for his alleged involvement in German Bakery Blasts in February 2010, has asked for intervention of High Court for keeping him in Mumbai prison.
The High Court has accepted the application and asked the matter to be scheduled for hearing on 23rd February.
Alleging the environment in the Yerwada prison as ‘hostile’, Baig stated that he fears to be killed as like his co-accused Qateel Siddique (28 Years) who was murdered in August 2012 in the very prison by two hardened criminals.
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind appointed Supreme Court lawyer Mahmood Pracha argued on behalf of Baig before High court that there are many lapses in the German Bakery Blast case and in 2012 one of the other accused in the case Qateel Siddique was murdered in the Yerwada prison and hence there are strong apprehension of Baig too being killed in the very prison so as to suppress the truth of the case.
After hearing Adv. Pracha, Bombay High Court then issued notice to the prison authority for presenting their side on the matter and placed it on 23rd February for next hearing.
Baig was in Mumbai Central Prison until last month for production before Bombay High Court during proceedings of the appeal filed by him against the conviction but was transferred to Yerwada jail in Pune as no regular hearing was occurring in Bombay High Court.
Albeit, Baig has been sentenced to death by session court based on Maharaashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad’s investigation he has been given clean chit in the case by nation’s elite central National Investigation Agency (NIA).
After many benches changed in High Court, Baig’s appeal against conviction is presently pending before Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.