SC grants bail to life convict in serial church blasts cases on medical grounds


Team Udayavani, Apr 13, 2018, 10:11 AM IST

New Delhi/Bengaluru: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to a convict who was sentenced to a life time imprisonment for being involved in a series of blast in various churches of Karnataka in 2000. He was given bail on medical ground. 

A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao depended upon a medical report outfitted by Additional Advocate General Devadatt Kamat, affirming that the applicant, Abdul Rehman Sait was suffering from different ailments and was undergoing treatment in Central Prison Hospital, Belagavi. 

The seat said “It shows up from the report that the candidate is undergoing treatment for different illnesses. This reality has likewise been affirmed,” 

“As the applicant isn’t in a good medical condition, we esteem it fit and legitimate to release Abdul Rehman Sait, on bail, in all the four cases, on outfitting sufficient security as per the general inclination of the trial court,” the seat included. 

The court passed its request, in the wake of hearing backer Kamini Jaiswal for the benefit of the candidate and Kamat for the state government. 

On April 10, the court had requested that the Karnataka government check his medical condition as he looked for bail battling that he has been in prison for around 18 years in the wake of having been indicted and granted life detainment for blasts at St Ann’s Church, Kalaburagi, St Peter and Paul church in Bengaluru and St John Luthern Church in Hubballi and accidental blast at Minerva Mills in Bengaluru. 

On February 17, 2017 another person Syed Abdul Khadar was given bail. 

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