RAVINDER PAL SINGH Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY Way of this order two petitions, one of Ravinder Pal Singh which is Criminal Misc. (M) and the other of Amrik Singh which is criminal Misc. (M) 101/86 are being decided. Both them had applied to the Court of Sessions for grant of bail. The application of Amrik Singh was rejected on November 1, 1985 by Shri S.R. Goel, Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi. A copy of order of Shri S.R. Goel has been placed on record the petition filed by Amrik Singh. The application of Ravinder Pal Singh was rejected on 8th January 1986 by another Addl. Sessions Judge and copy of the order of learned Addl. Sessions Judge has been placed on record of the petitioner of the Ravinder Pal Singh.

(2.) BOTH the petitioners were involved in conspiracy to place transistor bombs and thereby committing murders and actually murders took place on account of blast of transistor bombs. They are also involved in the commission of offences punishable under the provisions of Explosive Substance Act.

(3.) THE version of the prosecution, briefly is as follows. On 10th May, 1985 the petitioners boarded a passenger train which left Delhi and was bound for Aligarhg in Uttar Pradesh. The petitioners boarded that train from Delhi. When the train reached Shadhara, the petitioners placed one transistor bomb on a luggage rack and another transistor bomb in a 'thela' on a seat in the same compartment. Then they got down from the said train on the pretext that they were going for taking water. However, they never returned. The train started and at about 7.20 p.m. it reached Sahibabad, a place in Uttar Pradesh. On Zamir Adhmed, father-in-law Khan, took one of the transistors which contained bomb and tried to play it. The transistor bomb exploded with the result that Zamir Ahmed died. There were injuries to one minor girl also. The train then left and reached Aligarh where it has to be cleaned. One sweeper employed with the railways and having the name Bachchu Singh picked up the thela containing the transistor bomb and tried to play it. The same exploded and Bachchu Singh also died.