New Delhi: The Supreme Court docket has ordered bail for former Bahujan Samaj Occasion MLC Mohammed Haji Iqbal’s 4 sons, whose newest arrest was on 13 August, whereas additionally instructing the Uttar Pradesh authorities to not take them into custody in any new FIR lodged hereinafter.

Disposing a petition filed by Iqbal’s sons, specifically Wazid, Javed, Afzal and Alishan, the apex court docket Friday famous their apprehensions that they is perhaps arrested in a brand new case after their launch.

In its order, a bench of Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice Ok. Vinod Chandran stated, “It’s additional added that the respondents (Uttar Pradesh police) shall not arrest the petitioners in any of the FIR(s) which will likely be lodged hereinafter with out the depart of this Court docket.”

Iqbal was an MLC from BSP between 2011-2017 and is believed to be hiding in Dubai after the CBI launched a probe in 2019 towards him in mining-related circumstances in Saharanpur.

His 4 son have been arrested in a case of gang rape filed in October final yr. Their uncle, Mahmud Ali, has additionally been arrested on this case. The accused have been alleging that the Uttar Pradesh police have been submitting circumstances one after one other to maintain them languishing in jail.

In a writ petition filed earlier than the Supreme Court docket final yr, the accused, represented by senior advocates Siddarth Dave and Mohammed Zahid Hussain, argued that there have been as many as 32 circumstances towards them and their household.

Out of those, 10 circumstances have been quashed by the court docket at totally different ranges, whereas two have led to acquittals, adopted by the police submitting a closure report in a single case, they stated.

Throughout a listening to on the writ petition, the accused alleged that hours after the Allahabad Excessive Court docket granted them bail on 12 August in a case, the Saharanpur district police filed one other case below 308 (2) (punishment for extortion), and 351 (3) (felony intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.

The Allahabad Excessive Court docket bail had are available in an FIR registered on 2 October final yr, they stated, including the Uttar Pradesh Police was making ready to register this case after it acquired an inkling that they have been set to get bail 1 October within the 2022 case.

They alleged the police need to maintain them languishing in jail.

Haji Iqbal has been absconding because the CBI booked him in September 2019 in a case registered to probe his alleged function in unlawful renewals of sand mining leases by authorities in collusion with lease-holders.

The Enforcement Directorate has additionally initiated a cash laundering investigation towards him and hooked up the land and buildings of Glocal College in Saharanpur, which spans a 121-acre land parcel price roughly Rs 4,400 crore.

It was allegedly run within the identify of Abdul Waheed Academic and Charitable Belief, which was managed and managed by Iqbal and his members of the family.

(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)

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