Attack on Owaisi in UP: SC quashes HC order granting bail to two accused

The Supreme Court on Friday quashed an Allahabad High Court order granting bail to two men accused of firing at AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisis vehicle in Uttar Pradesh in February and gave them one week to surrenderThe top court said the seriousness of the alleged offence has not been considered by the high courtA bench of justices M R Shah and M M Sundresh said the high court did not accord any reason while giving bailThe apex court remanded the matter back to the high court for fresh consideration and directed Sachin Sharma and Shubham Gurjar to surrender before the police within a weekThe top court also directed the high court to decide the bail applications of the two accused within four weeks from the date of surrenderHaving gone through the impugned judgement of the high court it can be seen that there are no reasons given at all by the high court while releasing the accused on bailAlso read Ending corruption in MCD among AAPs 10 guarantees for municipal pollsIt has also not given any prima facie opinion on material collected during the course of the investigation which is now forming the part of charge sheet Even the seriousness the offence alleged has not been considered by the high court In that view of the matter the impugned judgement of the high court needs to be quashed and set aside the bench saidIn his petition before the apex court Owaisi challenged the bail granted to them saying this was a classic example of a disproportionate amount of prejudice and haterelated crimes leading to the incident of an attempt to murder and the target was a known MPThe All India MajliseIttehadul Muslimeen AIMIM chiefs car was attacked in Hapur while he was returning to Delhi after attending electionrelated events in western Uttar Pradesh on February 3 a week before assembly polls began in the stateLater the police arrested three persons Sharma Gurjar and Aalim for their alleged involvement in the incidentThe top court in September dismissed the challenge to the bail granted to AalimIn his plea Owaisi submitted that after accused Sachin came out on bail he again threatened the petitioner with serious consequencesThe said statement made in public is grave and requires to be taken into cognisance More importantly the accused has not denied his involvement rather it appears that he is taking pride in undertaking this crime the plea said adding that Owaisi was the victim of the incident of this attempt of murder by the accused whose action was recorded in CCTV footage which was now part of the charge sheetAfter the arrest of the accused the police said two pistols were seized from their possession and a Maruti Alto car was also impoundedThe FIR was lodged at Pilakhua Police Station under various provisions of the IPC including Section 307 attempt to murderThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever