Want bail, serve community: J’hand HC to six convicts

RANCHI: A Jharkhand high court judge has imposed a unique condition of “community service through traffic management and helping OPD patients at hospital” for granting bail to six incarcerated people allegedly involved in communal violence in Ranchi this year.

The incident occurred at a Muslim-dominated Bargaiyn locality in Jharkhand capital on June 3 in which a Hindu marriage procession was allegedly attacked by the members of the minority community leaving eight, including a five-year-old girl injured. The incident was allegedly the fall out of an objectionable Facebook post shared by the bridegroom’s cousin.

Following the incident, the police in June arrested six persons namely Imtiyaz Ansari, a businessman, Mojibur Rahman, a central government employee, Shakiruddin, Firoz Alam, Mohammad Aman and Sahid Alam, all students, and sent them to jail.

All the six had moved the Jharkhand high court for bail.

Granting them provisional bail on Friday, the bench of justice S Chandrashekhar besides imposing other conditions, asked the accused to render community service on October 3 and November 6 at the government-run Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi.

It directed them to report to the RIMS superintendent at 8.30 am on the fixed dates.

The superintendent would submit a report to the investigating officer who would furnish the same along with an affidavit, highlighting the conduct of the accused to the court on the next date of hearing on December 14.