The court directed each of them to furnish a bail bond of Rs 20,000 with one surety of like amount. (Representative image)NEW DELHI: A city court has granted bail to 13 accused in a northeast Delhi riots case citing the high court’s observations that if a person has been free for years and has not even been arrested during investigation, to send him to jail by refusing bail suddenly, merely because the chargesheet has been filed, is against the basic principles governing grant or refusal of bail. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shirish Aggarwal granted relief to Rajmal, Vishal, Nitish Kaushik, Atul Gupta, Akshay Kumar, Shivam Thakur, Rohtash Singh, Shivam Sharma, Vaibhav, Paramveer Bhati, Ram Babu, Subhash Singh and Ashu Shah in the case related to rioting in Khajuri Khas. The court directed each of them to furnish a bail bond of Rs 20,000 with one surety of like amount. It observed that the high court had held that on appearance of the accused in a non-bailable offence, who has neither been arrested during investigation nor produced in custody, the court shall call upon the accused to move a bail application. If the accused does not move the bail plea, the court would release him as the circumstances of not having been arrested or produced in custody would be sufficient to entitle him to be released on bail. “Since the accused persons were not arrested during investigation, the 13 applications for surrender-cum-bail are allowed,” mentioned the order dated August 23. The accused were directed not to tamper with evidence or influence witnesses in any manner. The counsel for the accused had argued that their custody was not required for any purpose, so they should be granted bail. Special Public Prosecutor RCS Bhadoria, appearing for police, opposed the bail pleas stating that the allegations against the accused were serious in nature. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebookTwitterInstagramKOO APPYOUTUBE
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