The convicts Santosh Anand Avdhoot and Sudevanand Avdhoot believed that their head could not come out of jail due to rejection of the bail applications by the bench headed by CJI in the Supreme Court.
"Evidence has come on record that Santosh Anand developed the belief that so long as A N Ray (CJI) was the head of the judiciary, peaceful and legal means would not secure release of Anand Murti and that armed revolution was the only way to get him released.
Earlier in the day, the High Court upheld the conviction of two Anandmargis Santosh and Sudevanand and 10-year jail term given to them for attempting to assassinate A N Ray near the Supreme Court in 1975.
The High Court, however, gave the benefit of doubt and set free third convict Ranjan Dwivedi, a lawyer, of the charge of conspiring with Santosh and Sudevanand to bomb the car of the then CJI on the evening of March 20, 1975.
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