Court rejects bail plea of 7/11 blast accused to visit ailing mother

Ansari’s mother is suffering with multiple problems like high blood pressure and heart ailment,and is undergoing treatment in a suburban hospital. He had moved an application seeking interim bail for four weeks,so that he could attend to his mother.

However,special public prosecutor Raja Thakre opposed the application claiming that the charges against him were of a very serious nature. His lawyer Shahid Nadeem Ansari said,“Ansari,along with others,has been facing trial for over six years and has been in jail all this while. It was a genuine plea made before the court.”

Ansari’s sister died in 2012. Although,he was granted permission to pay a visit,he could not make it for the burial as the escort team had reached late.

On July 11,2006,RDX-laden bombs ripped through the first class compartments of seven local trains running on the Western Railways during peak evening hours. The blasts took place within a span of 11 minutes between 6.24 p.m. and 6.35 p.m.