Sitting idle in a single-storey house, Hafeeza, a frail middle-aged woman, is heartbroken after hearing that a court had rejected the bail plea of her 22-year-old son jailed some 1,000 kilometres away, in an unknown city. Her muted tone and sunken eyes depict her hopelessness and dejection.
On Tuesday, 25 January, the CJM court in Agra rejected the bail plea of her younger son Showkat Ahmad Ganie and two other Kashmiri students – Inayat Altaf Sheikh and Arshid Paul, both residents of central Kashmir’s Budgam district.
The three students were detained by the Uttar Pradesh police on sedition charges for celebrating the victory of the Pakistan cricket team over India in the T20 World Cup match played in Dubai on 24 October last year.
Madhuvan Dutt, a Mathura-based senior advocate who is representing the three, after local lawyer associations refused to allow any of its members to represent them, explained to The Quint that the court rejected their "plea of compulsory bail under Section 167(2) of (Code of Criminal Procedure) filed by the trio”.
This provision, which was recently relied on by Bhima Koregaon accused Sudha Bharadwaj to get bail, gives an accused a right to get bail if the police fail to complete their investigation within a specified time limit – given the kind of offences raised here, the deadline was 90 days from their arrest.
Pursuing B Tech degrees at Raja Balwant Singh Engineering and Technical College in Agra, the trio have now spent over 90 days in jail.
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