New Delhi: A city court on Monday (September 9) extended the judicial custody of all six accused in Parliament security breach case till October 16.
All the accused – Manoranjan D, Sagar Sharma, Lalit Jha, Amol Shinde, Neelam Azad and Mahesh Kumawat – were produced before the court after the expiry of their judicial custody granted earlier by the court.
Court also reserved its verdict on Neelam Azad’s bail plea
Additional Sessions Judge Hardeeep Kaur also reserved the verdict on the bail plea of Neelam Azad, the only woman accused arrested in the case, after hearing submissions from the counsels representing Neelam Azad and the Delhi Police.
The court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Neelam Azad’s bail plea on September 11.
Not part of criminal conspiracy, Neelam Azad claimed
Neelam Azad has submitted in her bail plea that she was not part of the criminal conspiracy and that the investigation in the case is complete and it will take a long time for the court to decide the case.
During the arguments on Neelam Azad’s bail plea, the lawyer representing her claimed before the court that she was falsely implicated in the case and that she was not involved in the breach of parliament security.
Prosecution opposed Neelam Azad’s bail plea
The prosecution opposed Neelam Azad’s bail plea and submitted that Neelam Azad was involved in disrupting the sovereignty and integrity of India and the offence was grave and that there are strong, cogent, convincing, clinching and credible material, evidence and other documents against her which disentitles her to be released on bail.
“There are adequate, substantial and sufficient material, evidence and other documents against the present accused which shows her involvement in the offence attracting the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,” the prosecution told the court, news agency PTI reported.
Court on August 3 took cognisance of supplementary charge sheet
The court had earlier on August 3 taken cognisance of a supplementary charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police in the case under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
All the six accused in the Parliament security breach case are facing charges under stringent UAPA and various other sections of the Indian Penal Code for breaching the Parliament security on the 22nd anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack case on December 13 last year.
