JItendra Sarin, Prayagraj
Observing that the ‘gang’ run by former MLA Mukhtar Ansari was the most dreaded criminal group in India, the Allahabad excessive courtroom has rejected the bail software of 1 Ramu Mallah, a member of Ansari’s gang, in a homicide case that befell in Mau district.
The courtroom additionally urged the state to offer sufficient safety to witnesses as a good trial was not attainable with out their deposition. Within the current case in which the accused applicant had sought bail, the previous MLA and others have been additionally made accused.
Rejecting the bail software of Ramu Mallah, Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh declined to present him the advantage of parity in a case in which he was acquitted as witnesses had turned hostile. “Merely because the accused has been acquitted because the witnesses turned hostile in a number of the instances, his [Ramu Mallah’s] criminal historical past, doesn’t evaporate. Such a criminal, if allowed to return out of jail, would definitely be in a place to affect witnesses, and free, honest and truthful deposition of the witnesses can be unimaginable.”
Rejecting the pleas of the applicant’s counsel, the courtroom, in its order dated March 1, added: “The accused applicant is a dreaded criminal and a member of the most dreaded criminal gang of India i.e. the gang of Mukhtar Ansari. The accused applicant is going through a number of criminal instances of heinous offences…”