Sudhakar Chaturvedi, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, has requested the Special NIA court to cancel his bail and to take him into custody again as he does not have an accommodation in Mumbai to attend day-to-day hearings in the trial.
The top court, however, clarified that the trial court should not be influenced by observations in the high court's order. "The observation made in the impugned order for the purpose of examining the issue of sanction should not prejudice either the prosecution or the defence, in the proceedings before the trial court," the bench said
With less than two weeks remaining for polling in the first phase of the election in Uttar Pradesh, Upadhyay was given the ticket for the Beria assembly constituency in Balia.