Court sits on a holiday for humanitarian cause

Court sits on a holiday for humanitarian cause
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

MUMBAI, MARCH 18: In a humanitarian gesture, a designated court set up under TADA (P) Act especially sat on a holiday here today to release an accused from jail custody so that he could perform his mother's last rites.

On an oral plea made by defence lawyer Subhash Kanse, the designated judge P D Kode came to the court on a holiday to pass orders for releasing the accused, Bashir Usmani Gani.

Family members of the accused, waiting outside the Central Prison where the court is housed, were pleasantly surprised to see the judge. Even CBI prosecutor Ashok Kulaye and police inspector Raman Tyagi were summoned to the court so that order could be passed after hearing them.

The court ordered his release along with an escort team and in a humanitarian gesture, waived off the charges required to be paid by the accused. The police was directed to take the accused to his home at Mahim and also to the burial ground for performing his last rites.

The accused had earlier secured an order for release as his mother was not keeping well and was put on dialysis. But he could not make it as he could not afford to pay the escort charges.

Realising his difficulty, the court decided to waive off escort charges.