HC grants bail to remaining six Muslim men held for allegedly eating chicken biryani on Ganga

The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted bail to the remaining six of the 14 Muslim men who were arrested after they organised an iftar party on a boat in the river Ganga and allegedly ate chicken biryani, PTI reported.

The 14 men had been arrested after a video of the iftar party was widely shared on social media on March 16.

Justice Rajiv Lochan Shukla on Monday said that eight of the 14 men had already been granted bail for the same offence. The judge added that the present six applicants are also entitled to bail on the same terms.

Shukla on May 15 had granted bail to five of the men after observing that they were apologetic for their actions and that their families also regret the pain that had been caused to the society at large, the news agency reported.

On the same day, Justice Jitendra Kumar Sinha granted bail to three other accused in the case.

The men had moved the High Court after a session court in Varanasi denied bail to them on April 1.

They had also been denied relief on March 23 by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Amit Kumar Yadav, who said that the offences allegedly committed by the men were of “a serious nature and non-bailable”.

On Monday, Shukla said that the investigation...

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