Al Badr suspect gets bail

NEW DELHI: Irshad Ali, one of the two alleged Al-Badr militants, on Friday got interim bail from the Delhi High Court. The two accused had approached the HC challenging a trial court's order declining to discharge them on the basis of CBI's closure report against them.
Granting the interim bail to Irshad Ali for a month on furnishing a bond of Rs 25,000 and two sureties of like amount, Justice Mool Chand Garg imposed certain conditions on him.The Court directed him not to leave the city without its prior permission and asked him to report the local SHO every Monday.
Irshad's counsel Sufian Siddiqui had moved the bail plea contending that CBI had given a clean chit to the accused so they were out to be granted bail.
The special cell, the anti-terrorist unit of Delhi Police, which arrested Ali and Qamar with the help of an Intelligence Bureau official in February 2006 for their alleged link with militant outfit, was left embarrassed after CBI found nothing adverse against the two and termed them as "innocent'' in its report filed in November last year.
Attorney General G E Vahanvati, who appeared pursuant to the court's previous order, told the court that this is an "unprecedented'' case in which two government agencies gave contrary findings.
He sought two weeks to study the matter and inform the court by August 7.