Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Sep 10: On Wednesday September 9, the Supreme Court (SC) granted conditional bail to 21 persons from Mangaluru, who had been arrested and accused of participating in the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest in the city during December last year.

The protest organised in the city despite prohibitory orders against CAA, National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register, had turned violent. After the police opened fire, two persons had lost their lives.

Anti-CAA protests in Mangaluru in December 2019 (file photo)

A SC bench led by Chief Justice, S A Bobde, which heard the applications of the 21 accused, asked the accused to furnish Rs 25,000 bond each, duly putting the conditions that they should desist from violent activities and meetings.

The bench also had Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, as members. Accused Ashiq alias Mohammed Ashiq and others from Mangaluru were represented in the SC by senior advocates R Basant and Haris Beeran, while solicitor general Tushar Mehta had argued on behalf of the government.

The Karnataka high court had granted bail to the accused on February 17 this year but the SC had stayed the order on March 6.