Allahabad HC grants bail to men held over Ganga iftar row

Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court on Friday granted bail to a group of men accused of consuming non-veg food during an iftar on a boat in the Ganga in Varanasi and throwing the leftover waste into the river.

Justice Rajiv Lochan Shukla passed the order while hearing the bail application filed by the accused and fixed May 18 for hearing the pleas of some other accused in the case.

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Earlier, HC had granted one week time to the state government's counsel to file a counter affidavit. In the bail plea, the counsel for the accused claimed his clients were falsely implicated, and that they were not named in FIR. FIR was lodged on March 16 based on a complaint filed by Rajat Jaiswal, chief of Varanasi chapter of BJP Yuva Morcha.