This story is from July 29, 2015

Community no ground to deny bail: HC

Madhya Pradesh high court, Indore bench while granting bail to a teenager from minority community accused in a woman harassment case, observed it is undesirable and unreasonable to consider communal language and ground on the part of the court to reject a bail application.
Community no ground to deny bail: HC
INDORE: Madhya Pradesh high court, Indore bench while granting bail to a teenager from minority community accused in a woman harassment case, observed it is undesirable and unreasonable to consider communal language and ground on the part of the court to reject a bail application.
Justice Alok Verma on Tuesday dismissed order of a session court, which rejected bail to the boy on communal ground and granted bail to the teenage boy.
Zeeshan Ali, lawyer of petitioner said in June 2015, a 23-year-old woman in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh had registered a complaint with police alleging that she was being harassed by a teenaged boy. After the complaint the boy was arrested and booked for harassing her. Later, the woman gave a statement that she was not harassed by the boy and that she lodged the complaint under pressure from certain people.
But when the boy approached sessions court in Alirajpur for bail, courts rejected his bail application on the ground that boy and girl are from different community and bail of the boy will flare up communal tension.
HC in its order mentioned boy was booked only for harassing a woman and there was no charge of stoking communal tension. So it was undesirable on part of lower court to consider communal ground for denying his bail.
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