Babu Bajrangi withdraws bail plea after HC rejects it
June 19, 2015  16:31
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Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Babu Bajrangi, undergoing life imprisonment in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, today withdrew his plea seeking regular bail after the Gujarat high court observed the application should be rejected as bail cannot be granted only on medical grounds. 

A division bench of Justices Mohinder Pal and R D Kothari ordered that Bajrangi's application be "dismissed as withdrawn". 

Bajrangi had moved the HC through his advocate Pravin Gondaliya seeking regular bail on medical grounds for treating his eye ailment and also sought suspension of the sentence awarded to him by a special trial court. 

However, the HC observed the plea should be rejected as bail cannot be granted only on medical grounds because any prisoner can be provided with treatment as per the jail manual and existing laws. 

This prompted Bajrangi's lawyer to withdraw the application, which was allowed by the HC.
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