'Photographs Disclose Policemen Pelting Stones On The Crowd', Karnataka HC Grants Bail To Anti-CAA Protesters [Read Order]

Mustafa Plumber

19 Feb 2020 9:19 AM IST

  • Photographs Disclose Policemen Pelting Stones On The Crowd,  Karnataka HC Grants Bail To Anti-CAA Protesters [Read Order]

    "The photographs produced by learned SPP-I depict that hardly any member of the crowd were armed with weapons except one of them holding a bottle. In none of these photographs, police station or policemen are seen in the vicinity. On the other hand, photographs produced by the petitioners disclose that the policemen themselves were pelting stones on the crowd.", states the Order.

    Observing that "Investigation appears to be mala fide and partisan," the Karnataka High Court has granted bail to 22 people booked by the Mangalore police on allegations of violence and attack on police during anti-CAA protests in Mangaluru on December 19, 2019. Justice John Michael Cunha, while granting bail to the accused said; "In an offence involving large number of...

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