New Delhi, April 9: Eighty-year-old ailing Pakistani prisoner Dr. Khalil Chisty, serving life term in an Ajmer jail in Rajasthan in a murder case of 1992, was today granted bail by the Supreme Court.
A bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and J. Chelameswar granted him the reprieve, considering his old age and the fact that he has been held up in India for the last 20 years after a murder case was lodged against him when he came on a visit to Ajmer.
The court also agreed to hear Dr. Chisty’s plea to allow him to go back to Karachi and asked him to file a separate application for it.
The bench, however, asked Dr. Chisty not to leave Ajmer till further orders.
Dr. Chisty was granted bail a day after his case was discussed between the authorities of the two countries during Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit to India.
During a visit to Ajmer in 1992 to meet his ailing mother, Dr. Chisty had got embroiled in a dispute and, in the melee, one of his neighbours was shot dead, while Dr. Chisty’s nephew got injured.
Dr. Chisty was eventually held guilty in the murder case and was awarded life sentence by an Ajmer sessions court after the trial which lasted 18 years.
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