Maudany Forum set to raise funds

Jul 31, 2012 |

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Abdul Nasser Maudany

The Justice for Maudany Forum on Monday issued an appeal to the public asking for help to constitute a fund to fight his cases.

PDP leader Abdul Nasser Maudany is at present lodged in the Agrahara Central in Bengaluru, in connection with a bomb blast case.

According to the forum, Maudany would be completing two years in jail on August 17. He’s had no trial during the two years he’s been in jail and his health is deteriorating day by day.

“On his own, he is not in a position to bear the huge cost involved in conducting the case. Hence the appeal”, said forum convener and ex-MP, Sebastian Paul.

An earlier fund collection had led to a police case with some quarters accusing the forum of going in for compulsory collection at mosques.

“The case was investigated and the charges proved to be baseless”, said Sebastian Paul.
When asked about the propriety of collecting funds for a blast accused, the former MP said every citizen had a right to defend himself. “It is a right guaranteed by the Constitution.

And it is inhuman to hold somebody without trial for this long”, he said, adding that Maudanay had a similar fate in the Coimbatore blast case when he was held for 9 years in jail with the court finally finding him innocent.

Unlike in the Coimbatore case, Maudany failed to draw support from either the UDF or the LDF this time. The Assembly had passed a resolution for his release when he was held without trial at the Coimbatore prison.

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