By TCN News,
Banglore: Karnataka Home Minister KJ George has assured a delegation led by Welfare Party of India national Vice-President Dr. Lalitha Naik to look into the demand for bail to Abdunnasir Madani, a religious scholar and political leader from Kerala, put up in the Agrahara prison since August 2010 for alleged involvement in the 2008 Bangalore blast.
The delegation informed the Minister that Madani was suffering from a host of diseases such as chronic diabetics and cervical spondulosis. With vision power of one eye fully lost, the other one is 80% affected.
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Mr. Madani, who had lost one of his legs in a bomb attack in 1992 allegedly by RSS is unable to move and do his primary requirements without someone’s assistance. In the memorandum submitted, the Party alleged many of his diseases aggravated and health condition deteriorated during jail-ship in Parappana as he was denied proper health care.
His treatment expense at the Soukhya Hospital, where he was admitted for a short period, was met, not by the Karnataka government but by his family and friends. The delegation reminded the minister that Madani was imprisoned in Coimbatore jail accused in a similar case without bail or parole for nearly a decade. He was found innocent and acquitted by the Coimbatore court.
Welfare Party leaders requested the minister to see that what happened in Coimbatore jail must not be repeated here at Bangalore. The memorandum clarified that prominent legal luminaries and political leaders like Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, Chief Minister Oomen Chandi, and Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan besides a lot of political, religious and community leaders had requested for providing medical care to Mr. Madani, but in vain.
The delegation made it clear that they expected much from the present government committed to secularism and justice and made strongly demanded to give bail on humanitarian grounds for treatment, to speed up the trial by setting up a fast track court and to conduct the trial in an open court.
The delegation was comprised of P.C. Hamza, national General Secretary, Subramani, national Secretary, Akbarali Udupi, Karnataka State President, Kerala State Vice-Presidents Thennilapuram Radhakrishnan and Abdul Hameed Vaniyambalam, K. Ambujakshan, Kerala State General Secretary and Razack Paleri, Kerala State Secretary.
