Bombay HC refuses bail to Mulund blast convict

Ateef’s lawyer Mubin Solkar argued that his son has to be taken to hospital regularly for blood transfusion and monitoring, and that the father (Ateef) is the only person in the family who can tend to his son.

The Bombay High Court Thursday refused to grant temporary bail to Ateef Mulla, who has been convicted and sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment in the Mulund blast case of 2002. Ateef had sought the bail to tend to his minor son suffering from thalassemia.

“At this stage, we find that there is no case made out for grant of temporary bail to the applicant (Ateef). We shall consider the bail application on merits on July 13,” the court said.

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Ateef’s lawyer Mubin Solkar argued that his son has to be taken to hospital regularly for blood transfusion and monitoring, and that the father (Ateef) is the only person in the family who can tend to his son.

Ateef, who was the first accused to get bail in the blasts case, has spent two years and nine months in prison, leaving him with a sentence of around seven years.On December 6, 2002, there were blasts at a McDonald’s eatery at Mumbai Central Railway station. The second blast took place on January 27, 2003 at Mungibai Market in Vile Parle East and the third blast took place on March 13, 2003 in a Karjat-bound local train.

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