Overview
- The court said there was absolutely no admissible material to even raise grave suspicion of a plan to revive SIMI or Indian Mujahideen.
- The order, passed on December 20 and reported December 24, directs release from judicial custody if the men are not required in other cases.
- The prosecution’s case rested on police disclosure statements, which the court deemed inadmissible without discovery under Sections 25–27 of the Indian Evidence Act.
- The investigating officer told the court no separate incident was probed in this FIR and that the case relied on a list of 35 other matters involving the accused.
- The case stemmed from intelligence after a 2014 Bijnor blast, with later 2018 arrests following a Ghazipur encounter and an India–Nepal border pick-up, but the court found no corroborating evidence of a fresh conspiracy.