Ramabai Firing: HC grants bail to Kadam

The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to convicted police officer Manohar Kadam in connection with Ramabai firing case. He was given bail on Rs 50,000 bond.

The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to convicted police officer Manohar Kadam in connection with Ramabai firing case. He was given bail on Rs 50,000 bond.

Police officer Manohar Kadam was convicted and given life sentence in the Ramanbai firing case on May 7. Onu00a0Friday he was given bail by the Bombay High Courtu00a0

The high court, on Thursday, observed that they would have to examine whether the mob posed a threat to convicted police officer Manohar Kadam, his platoon, or the public during the July 1997 communal tension after the desecration of an Ambedkar statue at Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar. The court was to decide on his bail plea today.

On May 7, the HC had refused to grant a temporary bail to suspended SRPF officer Manohar Kadam following his conviction by the sessions court in Ramabai Nagar firing case.

He was convicted and was given life imprisonment for ordering firing on a dalit mob protesting at Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in suburban Ghatkopar in July 1997.