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Ninth metropolitan magistrate K Anand Rao granted conditional bail to six members of the outlawed Deendar Anjuman, who were arrested under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act last month.
The magistrate ordered their release on bail on Monday, after police officials and special public prosecutors failed to turn up for the second time in a month, when the matter came up in court.
The magistrate waited for the special public prosecutor or assistant public prosecutor to turn up. When they failed to do so, he granted bail to the accused on furnishing two sureties of Rs 10,000 each.
Deploring the callous way in which the police and prosecutors treated the issue, the magistrate observed that it was not for the court to suo motu view seriously the matters of hardcore and anti-national activists when the police did not come forward with a petition seeking extension of judicial custody for the Deendar Anjuman activists. He had no option but to grant bail, he said.
The six Deendar members were arrested by Humayunnagar police on May 22, for allegedly holding secret meetings on May 13 and 15 at a mosque on the Deendar Anjuman campus, in the city, delivering provocative speeches, to disturb peace between two communities and claiming that their ban would be lifted shortly.
Those released on bail are general secretary of the outlawed organisation Syed Basha (49), organising secretary Syed Salahuddin (60), joint organising secretary Fakir Moulvi Riyaz Ahmed Siddiqui (42), Rahul Ameen (40), Rahman Baig alias Syed Pasha (38) and Syed Zabiullah Hussain (34).
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