Setting aside a Special NIA Court's order, the Manipur High Court on Thursday cancelled the bail granted to two Kuki leaders for allegedly "waging war against India" and attempting to establish an independent "Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Kukiland."
It said the term the convict has spent in jail will be set off against the punishment awarded to him. Aboobacker had been in jail for the last five years.
Riyas Aboobacker was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2019 as a part of the probe against 14 persons from Kasaragod district.
A special NIA court, however, acquitted five other accused – Aseez Odakkali, Muhammad Rafi, Subair, Shefieq and Mansoor – for want of evidence.
The NIA had detained around a dozen persons in raids at around 14 places late on 26 May night in Jabalpur city.
Charge sheet was filled in case pertaining to the recovery of arms and ammunition at Tri-junction Narbal national highway on 20th November 2022.
The move came days after the court issued non-bailable warrants against 13 other active terrorists of Kishtwar who are also operating from Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Jammu & Kashmir (POJK).
A Special Court granted NIA a ten-day judicial remand of four accused to the in the case of murder of Udaipur's tailor Kanhaiya Lal Sahu.
The other two accused, Mohsin and Asif, arrested on Thursday night, were already kept in the ATS headquarters.
The case was initially registered by Kolkata Police's STF on November 21, 2017. following the arrest of five ABT members - four of them Bangladeshi nationals and one Indian.
