‘Providing Legal Help To PFI Cadre Not A Terriorist Act’: Patna HC Grants Bail To Advocate Accused Of Endangering Security Of India
Case: Jalaluddin Khan @ Md. Jalaluddin vs The Union of Indias
Coram: Justices Ashutosh Kumar and Alok Kumar Pandey
Case No.: Criminal Appeal. 514 of 2023
Court Observation: “Giving legal help to one who required such help was only his bounden duty as an Advocate. No words or sign of the appellant/Nooruddin Jangi @ Advocate Nooruddin Jangi, either in written or oral forms, was brought on record to indicate that he promoted enmity between different groups which could have been prejudicial to national integration. None of the protected witnesses have stated anything against him except for his association with P.F.I.”
“Terrorist organizations and Terrorist acts have been defined under the 1967 Act. The Act provides for punishment for terrorist acts, for raising funds for terrorist acts or for participating or organizing such acts as also for giving support to any Terrorist organization. But providing legal help to the P.F.I. cadre or interviewing candidates for selecting them for given scholarship would never fall in any one of the proscribed categories.”
“If there is any breach of any one of the conditions, it will be open for the N.I.A. to apply before the Special Court for the cancellation of his bail,”
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