Kochi, September 20: People’s Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani’s wife today moved a special court here seeking relaxation in her bail condition to visit her husband, an accused in the 2008 Bangalore blast case.
Soofiya Madani, who herself is an accused in a case of burning a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus in 2005, filed a petition before the National Investigation Agency court for permission to leave Ernakaulam district to meet Madani, lodged in a jail in Bangalore.
The CBI special court, designated court of NIA had earlier relaxed her bail condition thrice to meet Madani at Kollam, from where he was arrested by Karnataka police last month in connection with the Bangalore blast case.
The petition has been posted to Wednesday to hear the NIA, which probed the Kalamssery bus burning case and is investigating other terror related cases in Kerala.
As per her bail condition, Soofiya cannot leave the district without the court’s prior permission.
The bus was burnt on September 9, 2005 to protest against Madani’s continued imprisonment in connection with the 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts, which left 58 people dead and over 200 persons injured. Madani was acquitted by the trial court.
LeT suspect T Nazeer is an accused in the case in which Soofiya has been listed as the 10th accused.
Madani’s arrest by Karnataka police came after he was named as an accused, based on confessions of Nazeer, in the additional chargesheet relating to the Bangalore blasts, in which one person was killed and 20 others injured.
–Agencies