A Gandhinagar court last week granted bail to three of the four men accused of assaulting and abusing a Dalit groom for riding a horse during his wedding procession earlier this month.
In the order made public on Tuesday, the court of Gandhinagar Additional Sessions Judge DK Soni took into consideration that the three accused do not have any past criminal antecedents. While granting them bail, he went on to observe “prima facie satisfaction of the court in support of the charge, the character of the accused, circumstances which are peculiar to the accused, reasonable possibility of securing the presence of the accused at the trial, the larger interests of the public/ State”.
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