The Supreme Court on Friday said it would not extend the interim bail granted to the convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said it would not extend the interim bail granted to the convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
"We are not going to grant extension of the interim bail," a Bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan said when two of the convicts contended that till the copy of the voluminous judgement in the case relating to their appeal is filed they should be allowed to continue on bail.
"You (convicts) have to surrender and taken into custody as per our directions," the Bench, also comprising Justices RV Raveendran and VS Sirpurkar, said.
It said any relief to the convicts could be provided only after hearing on merits the regular bail applications and they will get the right to appeal.
The court, which had granted interim bail to actor Sanjay Dutt and others in the case, had directed that all the convicts on getting the copy of the judgement on their conviction had to surrender before the Mumbai TADA court.
They were granted interim bail on the ground that it was difficult for them to file the appeal in the absence of the copy of the judgement on the conviction.
Meanwhile, the court exempted the convicts from filing the certified and typed copy of the voluminous judgement for moving appeal against the conviction.
Senior advocate PS Mishra and Shree Prakash Sinha, appearing for the convicts Ibrahim Musa alias Musa Chauhan and Sardar Shah Wali Khan, submitted that the judgement contained around 5000 pages and it would become voluminous if all the guilty persons file them.
Further, they said, CBI itself should file the copy of the judgement as it would provide relief to many convicts, who are poor and not in a position to spend around Rs three lakh for getting seven copies of the judgement required to be filed with the appeal.
Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told the court that CBI will try to reduce the voluminous judgement into a soft copy.
The ASG's submission came when the court wanted to know whether the copy of the judgement can be filed in reduced format.
Dutt, who has been sentenced to six years under the Arms Act, had on Thursday filed his regular bail application.
Khan and Musa Chauhan were sentenced to life imprisonment and 10 years respectively after they were held guilty under TADA.
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