IANS/New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram
The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the bail plea of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chairman Abdul Nazir Madany (
pictured), an accused in the 2008 Bangalore blast case. The court also denied his plea for medical treatment in Kerala.A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam said: “We are not inclined to enlarge him on bail.” When Madany’s lawyer Sushil Kumar wanted the court to say that they were not inclined to enlarge him on bail at “this stage”, the court declined saying, “some one will move the court again in February.”The court also rejected his plea to be sent to Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala in Kerala for ayurvedic treatment and asked the Karnataka government to provide him the medical treatment he needs.When Sushil Kumar told the court that the treatment Madany needs is not available in Karnataka, the court observed: “Let the doctors say that they don’t have sufficient infrastructure to treat him there.”At this, Karnataka government’s lawyer M N Krishnamani told the court the treatment being given at Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala was also available in Bangalore and Madany was treated there last year.The court said Madany could not choose the place of his treatment and asked the jail authorities to take him to the hospital where the type of treatment he was seeking was available in Bangalore.“You are interested in a better treatment, you can’t identify the treatment centre,” the court told Sushil Kumar when he said his client could be taken to Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala in Kerala escorted by police.Madany was arrested on August 17, 2010, over the Bangalore bomb blast.In Thiruvananthapuram, top PDP leader Poonthura Siraj, who is a close relative of Madany, said the court rejection was unfortunate.“None in this country would have suffered like Madany because it appears this is going to be another ‘Coimbatore in the making’,” Siraj told reporters.Madany was released from a Coimbatore jail where he was lodged from 1998 to 2007 after he was accused of being involved in the Coimbatore serial bomb blast in 1998.“Our party leadership will meet in Kochi on Thursday to decide the future course of action to be adopted now. We will certainly continue our legal efforts to see justice is delivered to him,” Siraj said.