Activists Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha and certain others were on Saturday granted bail in a case of violence related to anti- Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in December 2019 [State V. Mohd Ilyas]..Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dinesh Kumar allowed bail stating that the accused had not been arrested during investigation.“Bail applications filed on behalf of accused Mohd Abuzar, Mohd Shoaib, Chanda Yadav, Umair Ahmad, Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha and Shahzar Raza Khan. The accused persons present in the court are heard on bail. Considering the fact that they were not arrested during the investigation, they are admitted to bail on furnishing of PB (personal bond) and SB (surety bond) in the sum of ₹25,000,” the order said..Co-accused Sharjeel Imam was stated to be absent during the hearing. He is stated to be in JC (judicial custody) in some other case, the Court noted.“Issue warrants of production of accused Sharjeel Imam for the next date of hearing. It be endorsed on the warrants that the custody of the accused is not required in the present case,” directed the Court.The FIR, according to a counsel privy to the case, pertained to charges of alleged rioting and damage to public property during the anti-CAA protests in December, 2019 at Jamia Nagar in Delhi.Advocates Adit S Pujari, Ayush Shrivastava, Mohd. Talat, Ritesh Dhar Dubey, Sharjeel Ahmed, Sowjhanya Shankaran, Siddharth Satija and Kartikey Sahai represented the accused persons who were granted bail..[Read Order]
