Delhi court grants bail to 8 in PFI case, pulls up cops
November 30, 2022 00:27
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A court in New Delhi has pulled up the Delhi police for not being able to justify how eight people, arrested in a case against the Popular Front Of India, carried out unlawful activities since they were in custody when the offences were claimed to have been committed.
Granting bail to the accused on November 28, additional sessions judge Sanjay said, "Nothing could be shown to prove that the accused people were involved in unlawful activity from the date of declaring PFI as unlawful organisation till their arrest in the present case."
The court noted that the Popular Front Of India was banned on September 28 and records show that at the time of the ban on PFI, the accused were already in custody.
Four were released from Tihar Jail on the night of October 2 and another four on October 4.
They were arrested at 6.51 am on October 3 and 5.10 am on October 5, it said.
"The investigating officer has not been able to show sufficient incriminating material against the accused persons collected during the probe that as to when accused persons were in custody from September 27, 2022, and remained in Tihar Jail till October 4 or 3, 2022, then how the accused persons have carried out such activities which are aimed at advocating, abetting or inciting/assisting any unlawful activity of the unlawful organisation," the court said. -- PTI
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