A Delhi court today allowed the bail plea of Phoolan Devi murder case accused Sher Singh Rana in the 2004 Tihar jail break case but he will not be released from prison as he is facing trial relating to the killing of bandit-turned-politician.
A Delhi court today allowed the bail plea of Phoolan Devi murder case accused Sher Singh Rana in the 2004 Tihar jail break case but he will not be released from prison as he is facing trial relating to the killing of bandit-turned-politician.
Chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav granted the bail to Singh noting that he has been in prison in the case for more than four years.
The court asked him to furnish personal and surety bond of Rs20,000 each as condition for the bail. Rana had sought bail arguing that he has been in judicial custody for more than four years and six months.
He had also contended that co-accused Vikram Singh Rana has already been granted bail in the case while two other accused Sandeep Thakur and Sunil Kumar have been let off following a plea bargain by them.
The public prosecutor opposed Rana's plea saying that the charges against the accused were grave and his bail application had been dismissed in February last year.
The court, however, allowed the bail plea of Rana.
Rana had escaped from Delhi's Tihar jail on February 17, 2004 in a dramatic manner on a fake production warrant by his associates posing as Uttrakhand policemen before the real police team could come to take him from the high-security prison.
He was re-arrested in April 2006.
Rana, along with others, is accused of hatching a conspiracy and gunning down then Samajwadi Party MP Phoolan Devi outside her residence in New Delhi in July 2001.
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