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A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra mounted the bail bond quantity for accused Ram Sewak, a resident of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, saying that it shouldn’t be in extra of Rs 25,000
The Supreme Courtroom on Friday granted bail to an individual who together with Rajendra Bihari Lal, the vice chancellor of Uttar Pradesh’s Sam Higginbottom College of Agriculture, Expertise and Sciences (SHUATS), was dealing with probe in a felony case pertaining to alleged unlawful spiritual conversions.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra mounted the bail bond quantity for accused Ram Sewak, a resident of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, saying that it shouldn’t be in extra of Rs 25,000.
The highest court docket mentioned the opposite bail circumstances might be mounted by the trial court docket. We direct that the petitioner shall be launched on bail in reference to … lodged at Police Station Nawabganj, District Ganganagar (Commissionerate Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh topic to such phrases and circumstances as could also be imposed by the Trial Choose. “Nevertheless, the quantum of the bail bond to be mounted shall not be in extra of Rs 25,000, the bench mentioned.
On April 1, the highest court docket had granted bail to Rajendra Bihari Lal in two felony circumstances pertaining to offences together with that of alleged unlawful spiritual conversions. The court docket additionally issued discover to the Uttar Pradesh authorities on Ram Sewak’s plea for quashing the case towards him.
The circumstances towards Lal and Ram Sewak contain offences underneath sections 307 (try to homicide), 504 (intentional insult with an intention to impress breach of peace) and 386 (extortion) of the IPC. They had been additionally booked underneath some provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Illegal Conversion of Faith Act, 2021.
The Uttar Pradesh Police had earlier informed the highest court docket that Lal and different accused are the principle perpetrators of a mass spiritual conversion programme which entails overseas funds from about 20 international locations.
The police had mentioned Lal, among the many different accused within the case, was truly a infamous felony concerned in 38 circumstances of assorted nature, together with dishonest and homicide, registered throughout the state during the last twenty years.
The state police have alleged that about 90 Hindus congregated on the Evangelical Church of India in Hariharganj, Fatehpur, for changing to Christianity and had been put underneath undue affect, coercion, and lured by means of fraud and the promise of straightforward cash.
