Bengaluru blasts accused Abdul Nasser Madani claims he is innocent

Madani describe his sufferings during the last 15 years as an undertrial prisoner in Coimbatore.

Update: 2016-07-07 21:19 GMT
People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Nasser Madani. (Photo: PTI)

Kollam: PDP chairman Abdul Nasser Madani has claimed that he was innocent in the cases charged against him. Delivering  an emotional speech at the prayer congregation held at Anvarssery in Sasthamkotta on Eid day, he described his  sufferings  during the last 15  years as an undertrial prisoner in  Coimbatore  and Bangalore and  sweared over Quran that he was not  involved in any of the anti-national activities that he was charged with.

Madani also condemned the protest and attack at Nedumbasssery airport by the PDP activists on Tuesday following Indigo’s refusal to allow him  to board the flight from  Bengaluru. The protesters had also shattered  the glass panes of the airlines  in Kochi. Madani  was on Thursday   taken to a private hospital in Kollam for cardiac check-up.

Madani was arrested by the Kerala police and handed over to the Bengaluru police on August 17, 2010 while on Ramzan fasting as an undertrial prisoner in connection with the Bangalore serial blasts and was lodged in Parapanna Agrahara prison.

He was in jail for at least five years before getting conditional bail for five days in May 2015 to visit his ailing father. In the Coimbatore blast case, Madani was arrested in March 1998 by the Kerala police and handed over to the Tamil Nadu police. He was in jail for ten years  before he was acquitted in the case.

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