New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider the bail plea of Samajwadi Party MLA Ramakant Yadav in the poisonous liquor case that killed nine people in Azamgarh in 2022.
A vacation bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Rajesh Bindal refused to interfere with the Allahabad High Court order denying him bail.
Yadav's lawyer withdrew the petition after the bench expressed reluctance to consider it. The case was dismissed as withdrawn.
Yadav had moved the top court against the May 14 order of the high court which had rejected his bail plea with a direction to the trial court to complete the examination of the remaining witnesses within four months.
"A perusal of the record reveals that the first bail plea of the applicant was rejected by this Court vide order dated 06.09.2023 and the Trial Court is directed to expedite the trial and conclude it at the earliest within a period of six months. Although only six witnesses have been examined so far.
"From the materials on record it appears that some important witnesses have been examined but factual statements of some witnesses have still not been recorded. Keeping in view the facts of the case, at this stage of the trial, it is not “It would be just and proper to release the applicant-accused on bail,” the High Court had said.
In February 2022, an FIR was lodged at Ahraula police station in Azamgarh where nine people died after allegedly consuming spurious liquor. Although Yadav was not named in the FIR, it was included in it in September 2022.
A vacation bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Rajesh Bindal refused to interfere with the Allahabad High Court order denying him bail.
Yadav's lawyer withdrew the petition after the bench expressed reluctance to consider it. The case was dismissed as withdrawn.
Yadav had moved the top court against the May 14 order of the high court which had rejected his bail plea with a direction to the trial court to complete the examination of the remaining witnesses within four months.
"A perusal of the record reveals that the first bail plea of the applicant was rejected by this Court vide order dated 06.09.2023 and the Trial Court is directed to expedite the trial and conclude it at the earliest within a period of six months. Although only six witnesses have been examined so far.
"From the materials on record it appears that some important witnesses have been examined but factual statements of some witnesses have still not been recorded. Keeping in view the facts of the case, at this stage of the trial, it is not “It would be just and proper to release the applicant-accused on bail,” the High Court had said.
In February 2022, an FIR was lodged at Ahraula police station in Azamgarh where nine people died after allegedly consuming spurious liquor. Although Yadav was not named in the FIR, it was included in it in September 2022.
