AHMEDABAD: The special court, set up to hear the serial blast cases, on Tuesday rejected an application by an accused for regular bail on the ground that the act of terrorism was a very serious offence and the trial was about to commence in the case.
Designated judge Bela Trivedi declined the bail application of Mohammed Zakir Abdul Haq Shaikh of Thane in Maharashtra. Shaikh is one among the 60 persons arrested till date by Gujarat Police in connection with the bombings in the city on July 26, 2008.
Claiming innocence, Shaikh argued that the police have not been able to produce any evidence of their charge that a co-accused in the case Sadiq alias Yasir had passed on instructions to him with regard to terror attacks. He also contended that the police have not placed proof of their claims that he had participated in terror training camps held in Waghamon forests in Kerala and at other locations.
The Crime Branch has filed 66 chargesheets in connection with 20 FIRs lodged in relation to the Ahmedabad blasts that left 57 people dead. Besides this, the Surat crime branch too had also filed several chargesheets for 15 FIRs lodged in Surat in connection with 29 bombs found a day after the serial blast in Ahmedabad. None of these bombs went off due to technical reasons, and the police have arraigned all terror accused nabbed in bomb planting incidents in Surat.
Source: TimesofIndia
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