Kerala High Court denies Madani's wife anticipatory bail
Sufiya arrested after being named 10th accused in bus burning case
Kochi: The Kerala High Court Thursday refused to grant anticipatory bail to Sufiya Madani, wife of People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Abdul Nazir Madani, in a bus burning case of 2005. She was arrested shortly after the court's order.
Sufiya was named 10th accused in the case earlier this month. The first accused in the case is south India chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba T. Nazeer, who has been arrested.
A Tamil Nadu State Transport bus was burnt in Kalamasserry after reports that Madani was ill-treated in Coimbatore jail, where he was detained for trial in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast case.
He was, however, exonerated in 2007. After Justice K.T. Sankaran denied Sufiya's anticipatory bail plea, she was arrested from her home in Kochi.
Justice Sankaran said giving anticipatory bail to the accused would hamper the investigation of the case.
Madani, however, maintained that his wife is innocent and had been framed.
