SC to take up Tahir Hussain’s bail plea today

SC to take up Tahir Hussain’s bail plea today

NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: The 2020 riots accused Tahir Hussain has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking interim bail for campaigning ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections.

Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has fielded Tahir Hussain as a candidate from the Mustafabad constituency.

As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Ahsanuddin Amanullah will hear Tahir Hussain’s special leave petition on January 20.

Last week, the Delhi High Court turned down Tahir Hussain’s plea for interim bail but granted him custody parole to enable him to file nomination papers for the upcoming Assembly polls.

As per the order of the Delhi High Court, Tahir Hussain, while out on custody parole, will not have any access to the phone or the internet, will not interact with any person except the officials concerned in the nomination process, and will not address the media.

Further, family members of Hussain may remain present, but they would not be permitted to click photographs of the filing of the nomination or to post the same on social media, the court order had said.

Disposing of Hussain’s plea for interim bail, a bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna ruled: "Merely because the Applicant/Petitioner had earlier been a Municipal Councilor, cannot be a peculiar circumstance entitling him to grant of Interim Bail."

"Considering the antecedents, nature of allegations and having regard to the totality of circumstances, he (Hussain) is granted Custody Parole for subscribing the oath and to complete the formalities in respect of filing his Nomination Papers,” it said.

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