Last month, the court had admitted the appeals filed by Ateef Mulla and Hasib Mulla, challenging a special POTA court's order convicting them in the blasts case and sentencing them to 10 years. On the duo's bail applications, the court issued notice to the Maharashtra government.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to two convicts sentenced in the 2002-2003 triple bomb blasts case. The court directed the duo to plead their case once the court reopens after vacation.
Last month, the court had admitted the appeals filed by Ateef Mulla and Hasib Mulla, challenging a special POTA court's order convicting them in the blasts case and sentencing them to 10 years. On the duo's bail applications, the court issued notice to the Maharashtra government.
However, since the matter was not heard before the court went on vacation, the accused had approached the vacation court seeking bail. It was claimed by them that they were out on bail during the time of the trial and the same relief should be continued pending the hearing on the appeal filed by them challenging the conviction.
However, vacation bench of justices MS Karnik and Ajey Gadkari refused to entertain the plea. The duo in their appeal claimed that the trial court erred in law in convicting them on the basis of "unreliable, tainted and legally inadmissible evidence" as the prosecution has miserably failed to adduce "cogent and sufficient independent evidence" to prove their involvement.
Apart from these two, a POTA court had recently convicted eight others, including conspirators Saquib Nachan and planter Muzameel Ansari, for planning and executing triple blasts at Mumbai Central, Vile Parle and Mulund in 2002-2003. The court had acquitted three persons due to lack of evidence.
As many as 12 people were killed in Mulund train blasts on March 13, 2003. Prior to that, on December 6, 2002, several persons were injured in a blast at McDonald's at Mumbai Central station, while a person had died in a blast in a market in Vile Parle (East) on January 27, 2003.
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