The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to a convict in the 2002 Best Bakery case of Gujarat on medical grounds.
The division bench comprising of Justices V.M. Kanade and P.D. Kode directed the petitioner who is an HIV patient, whose identity is not revealed to submit a personal bond of Rs. 5,000.
He is the first person to be released on bail after an appeal was filed in the High Court against the conviction.
Fourteen persons were killed inside the Best Bakery in Vadodara during the post-Godhra communal riots of Gujarat in 2002. Out of the seventeen accused, nine were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Special Court in Mumbai.
The High Court on Thursday went through the medical reports submitted by the Civil Hospital, which state that the petitioner's CD4 Count had apparently gone down to 196 and HIV infection was at Stage 2, which requires constant medical attention.
The court after considering the medical reports stated it appropriate to release him on bail.
The court has directed the petitioner to provide his permanent address in Vadodara where he would be staying along with his contact number. The court directing him to be released on bail, also directed that his condition would be reported to the nearest police station by his relatives once in two weeks.
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