Court cancels bail of accused in the Mamta acid case

Shimla, July 31 (UNI) The Himachal Pradesh High Court today cancelled the order of the grant of bail to the accused in the Mamta acid case, while ordering the completion of trial within six months.

Setting aside Mandi District and Session Court's order of June 28 this year of granting bail to the accused, Mohammad Magroob, the court sent him to judicial custody on a plea by the victim's father.

Magroob is accused of throwing acid on Mamta Katoch, then a BA second year student of Mandi Degree College, in a moving bus on May 27 last year, while she was returning home from college after she spurned his advances.

The accused was granted bail by the Mandi District Session Judge on June 28 last month after remaining in judicial custody for over 13 months, while the victim was under going treatment at the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital here.

The court ordered Magroob's arrest and sent him to judicial custody, which was opposed by his counsel, saying that he had not violated any condition of the grant of bail and that he had been falsely implicated in the case.

''The trial should be completed within six months to provide justice to the girl who was seriously injured in the incident,'' the court observed.

Magroob's counsel, on the other hand, denied his hand in the incident and said he was falsely implicated in the case, which was contested by the government counsel who said 10 other people had suffered injures in the incident, which had 13 eye witnesses.

The government counsel added that the accused was arrested a few days after the incident from where he had fled on that day.

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