Mumbai: The Supreme Court on Friday fired a special leave petition submitted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to challenge the guarantee confirmed by the Bombay High Court for Kalyan Youth Areb Majeed, accused of the Links of Islamic Visit (IS) following his visit to Syria.
Judge S Judge Abdul Nazeer and S Bopanna rejected the challenges of agency, enforcing guarantees given in February to Majeed.
The Bombay High Court has confirmed its guarantee on February 23 and he released 5.
Majeed has been arrested on November 28, 2014, on arrival at Mumbai airport.
Observing the possibility of his trial was postponed for “a big period”, the HC bench from Judge S Shinde and Manish Pitale had confirmed the guarantee given by the Special Nia Court last year.
The bench has quoted its fundamental rights to live in the context of rights to quick trial.
Guarantee is for Rs 1 lakh with two solvent surety bonds in such amounts.
Stiffness under the activity (prevention) that violates the law (prevention) acting that makes a difficult guarantee in terror cases will “melt when there is no possibility the trial is resolved in a reasonable time …, ” said Bench HC, emphasizing aspects “Significant ” in the case of majeed considering the time he had spent behind bars.
HC noted “the process of examining 51 prosecution witnesses had taken more than five years and there were 107 more witnesses” to be examined by Nia.
However, some allowed Nia Plea by setting aside findings about the benefits of this case and upholding guarantees only with the suffering of the court and detention.
SC enforced guarantees for Areeb majeed
