Geelani bail hearing today

New Delhi: A trial

court

will on Friday hear the

bail

plea of former DU professor S A R Geelani who has been arrested under

sedition

charge. Additional sessions judge Amit Bansal deferred the matter for Friday after noting that the judge, who was scheduled to hear the case on Thursday, was on leave. Geelani, who has been in judicial custody for over a month, had moved bail on Wednesday claiming that the case had been "falsely foisted upon him". Earlier on February 19, a magisterial court had dismissed his bail application after the police said that he had generated "hatred" against the government.