Over 3 months after Bengaluru student and activist Amulya Leona was arrested and jailed on charges of sedition and creating communal disharmony, the 5th ACMM court granted her bail under the default provision CrPC 167(2) on 10 June.
She is expected to walk out of Parappana Agrahara jail after the release order is passed on Friday, 12 June.
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On Wednesday, the same day that a sessions court rejected her bail application on the grounds that the accused “may abscond and involve herself in similar offences”, Amulya’s lawyers were able to get her bail by moving a simultaneous bail plea in a magisterial court in late May.
Amulya had been arrested in February for chanting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan at an anti-CAA event in Bengaluru, which was attended by AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi.
“There were multiple petitions initiated before different jurisdictional courts on different grounds. CRPC 167(2) defines the statutory time by when the chargesheet is filed based on the charges and time is between 60-90 days. In this case, since 90 days have passed, after expiry of 90th day, the 91st day accused is entitled to bail. So we moved a different court for default bail and the order came on Wednesday,” said R Prasanna, part of the team of advocates that has been arguing the case in court.
