Thaindian News

Kochi, Sep 22 (IANS) People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Nasir Maudany’s wife Sufiya, an accused in the 2005 Kalamassery bus burning case, Wednesday got relaxation in her bail for two weeks to go and meet her husband who is in judicial custody in Bangalore.
She submitted a petition to the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here Monday.

The counsel for NIA strongly opposed her plea on the grounds that Maudany is an accused in a terror case and hence her plea should be rejected. The court, however, granted her request though asking her to see that she informs the NIA of her tour programme.

The special NIA court, on two occasions in the past, relaxed her bail plea for going out of Ernakulam district to meet her husband who was then holed up at the PDP headquarters in Kollam.

She got bail from the Ernakulam sessions judge Dec 23 last year on the condition that she surrender her passport and not go out of Ernakulam district.

Maudany, an accused in the 2008 serial explosions in Bangalore, was arrested by a Karnataka police team from his party office complex in Kollam district in Kerala Aug 17, and is now lodged in Bangalore’s Parappana Agrahara jail.

The arson attack on the bus took place Sep 9, 2005, when alleged PDP activists burnt a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus at Kalamassery to protest the authorities’ refusal to release Maudany from prison.