MUZAFFARNAGAR: Fourteen more people, who were arrested in the aftermath of December 20 anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) violence, were granted bail on Saturday by a local court here in
Muzaffarnagar.
District judge Sanjay Kumar Pachori ordered their release and asked them to furnish two bail bonds of Rs 1 lakh each.
Earlier, 16 people, including 10 students of a madrassa, were granted bail by the court, taking the tally of those released from jail to 30.
Defence lawyer Qazi Mohammad Naeem said, “As many as 30 people, who had been arrested after the violence, have been granted bail. We hope that the rest of them are also out of jail.”
According to police sources, 47 cases were registered at City Kotwali and and other police stations, in which more than 250 named and many unidentified people were booked under various sections of the
Indian Penal Code. So far, more than 80 people have been arrested.
Notably, a special investigation team (SIT), led by SP (crime RB Chaurasia, was formed to probe all the anti-CAA stir cases. The probe is on.
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