HC comes to rescue of Bangladeshi National

The Madras High Court today came to the rescue of a Bangladeshi National, suffering from HIV infection, by modifying the bail condition issued by a lower court which asked him to produce two personal sureties for Rs 50,000 from his native country.
Justice S Vaidhyanathan of the Madurai Bench of the HC, allowing the petition filed by Mohammed Sahul Islam Biswas, set aside the Tiruchirappalli Judicial Magistrate order, saying any bail condition should be executable.
Asking the petitioner to execute the personal sureties from his country is like denying the bail to him, the judge said, and directed the petitioner to produce two personal sureties Rs 25,000 each from Tiruchirappalli where he was staying for providing treatment to his ailing son, and asked him to sign before the Judicial Magistrate court daily as ordered earlier.

The petitioner submitted that the Srirangam Police had registered a case against him under Immoral Traffic Act. But as they did not file the charge-sheet for a long time after May 2013 when they registered the case, the magistrate released him on conditional bail.
He was not able to execute the bail condition as the magistrate had asked to provide sureties from his country, the petitioner said, submitting that he was prepared to provide sureties from Tiruchirappalli and sought a direction from the High Court to modify the bail condition.