Supreme Court Grants Bail To Journalist Kazmi
By Abu Zafar
19 October, 2012
Newzfirst.com
NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to journalist Syed Mohammad Ahamad Kazmi, who was arrested by the Delhi Police for alleged involvement in the Israeli diplomat assassination attempt.
The Delhi Police had arrested Kazmi on 6 March in connection with a plot to kill an Israeli diplomat’s wife in Delhi on 13 February.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir granted bail and directed him to deposit his passport before the concerned authority. Kazmi has also been restrained from going abroad.
The bench passed the order on a plea filed by Kazmi challenging the Delhi high court's order which had dismissed his plea for bail.
The Special Cell of Delhi Police picked up Kazmi after an investigation showed that he had been touch with the other suspects who is believed to have planted magnetic bomb on the car belonging to diplomat Tal Yehoshua.
Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua Koren, 42, wife of Israeli Defence Attache Colonel Yossi Refaelov and an Indian driver of the embassy vehicle were among four persons injured in the blast .
Accusing Delhi police of acting under pressure from Israel and the United States to name and implicate Iran in the case, many rights’ groups have been expressing the concern that Kazmi is being falsely implicated.
Kazmi Solidarity Committee welcomes court order; condemns the attitude of Special Cell:
The Kazmi Solidarity Committee welcomes the Supreme Court order granting bail to Syed Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi after seven months in custody on charges of involvement in the bomb attack on an Israeli diplomatic vehicle.
The committee deplores the obstructive attitude of the prosecution and the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, which have been perversely attempting to keep Mr. Kazmi in prison despite their inability to file a chargesheet within the extended time granted under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Not only did the prosecution seek an extension of 90 days after the mandated period of judicial custody was over, it also used its inefficiency as an alibi, pleading that it needed more time to send out letters rogatory seeking international judicial assistance. While Mr. Kazmi was in custody, the Special Cell left no stone unturned in orchestrating a media trial to establish his guilt, planting malicious stories of his "confession" (while disavowing responsibility for these in court hearings).
The committee would like to underline once again, that despite this campaign by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, independent media reports have suggested that the evidence against Mr Kazmi is feeble and the case against him, unlikely to stand any form of scrutiny.
Sukumar Muralidharan, Saeed Naqvi, Seema Mustafa, John Cherian, Jawed Naqvi,Sanjay Kapoor, Iftikhar Geelani, Ajit Sahi, Iqbal Ahmad (journalists)
Shabnam Hashmi, Mahtab Alam, Manisha Sethi, Mansi Sharma and many other activists and journalists for Syed Kazmi Solidarity Committee
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