The Kerala High Court on Thursday granted bail to Rafeeq M.S., a member of the banned organisation Popular Front of India (PFI), who is accused in the 2022 murder of former RSS leader S.K. Srinivasan in Palakkad district.

A bench of Justices Raja Vijayaraghavan V and K.V. Jayakumar allowed Rafeeq’s bail plea while setting aside the special NIA court’s orders dated March 13 and April 29, which had extended his detention and rejected his bail application.

The High Court noted that Rafeeq has already spent ten months in pre-trial detention and there was “no foreseeable possibility of the trial commencing or concluding in the near future.”

The bench observed:

“Even if proceedings were to resume, the sheer number of witnesses and extensive volume of documentary and material evidence clearly

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