Kerala court defers hearing on Sufiya Maudany’s bail plea

KOLLAM - A team of Kerala police officials who had come to take into custody Abdul Nasir Maudany’s wife Sufiya Maudany in connection with the 2005 Kalamassery bus burning case, returned after the state high court deferred hearing of her anticipatory bail till Thursday.

The Maudany’s are residing near Mynagapally in Kollam district.

The Kerala Police had last week named Sufiya as the 10th accused and a notice was sent to her to appear before the police, but she failed to do so and filed for anticipatory bail.

Last week, the court posted the case for Monday, which deferred hearing of her anticipatory bail till Thursday.

The bus burning case is in the news after T. Nazeer, the arrested south India chief of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, is learnt to have told investigators that he had been in constant touch with Sufiya before and after the bus was burned.

Nazeer and his accomplice were taken into custody in the Meghalaya border early this month for his role in the 2008 Bangalore bomb blast.

Meanwhile, Maudany after hearing the news of deferment of his wife’s bail plea turned emotional. He told reporters that god would help his wife and him to come clean in the case.

“Do you think that my wife will be party to burning a bus while I was in the Coimbatore jail. God is not blind and god is not going to be influenced by all what is happening in the media,” Maudany told reporters.

–Indo Asian News Service