Court grants 3-month bail to Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy

September 29, 2015 16:36

Top Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy, accused of trying to set up a base for banned outfit CPI (Maoist), has been granted interim bail for three months by a Delhi court on health grounds.

The court said that 65-year-old Ghandy, who is in custody in this case since September 2009, was suffering from various ailments and his condition has "visibly deteriorated" during the period of trial.

"In these facts and circumstances, I admit accused Kobad Ghandy to interim bail for a period of three months on his furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs one lakh and two sureties of the like amount," Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh said.

The court is currently recording prosecution evidence in the case in which Ghandy along with co-accused Rajender Kumar alias Arvind Joshi is facing trial.

Ghandy, an alumnus of the prestigious Doon School and St Xavier's College Mumbai, is facing prosecution in around 20 criminal and terror cases in different parts of the country.

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