Bombay HC reserves order on bail plea of man accused to be ISIS recruit

The Bombay High Court reserved its order on the bail plea of a man who has been accused of being an ISIS recruit in India and part of an IED-blast conspiracy.

The Bombay High Court, while reserving its order on the bail plea of a Parbhani resident who was arrested on charges of being an ISIS recruit in India, noted that for years the trials do not end and the accused keep languishing in jail. Iqbal Ahmed Kabir Ahmed, who was arrested on August 7, 2016, in a case registered by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra police, was initially not in the FIR as the investigation had commenced on source-based information of police personnel. But a few days later, as the investigation unfolded, he was arrested and has been behind bars for nearly five years now.