TNN | Jul 9, 2020, 04:00 IST
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has granted conditional bail to one of
the accused persons involved in videography of Asiatic lions in the
Veraval forest range in January this year.
The person released on bail was Hala Naeem Mohmad Soyab, a resident of Veraval. He was the third person who has got bail in this incident of filming the lions on January 22. The forest department booked him along with two others under Sections 2(16), 2(17), 2(20), 2(31), 2(36), 2(37), 9, 39, 50, 51 and 52 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, for causing disturbance to wild animals, chasing them in a vehicle and filming them.
A sessions court in Veraval had denied bail to Soyab, which compelled him to approached the high court last month. He submitted that he was innocent and that the lions had strayed into the revenue area and filming them in revenue areas cannot be an offence. He was not involved in any hunting activity and it was not such a serious offence.
On Monday, Justice A C Joshi ordered to release Soyab on bail on his furnishing Rs 15,000 bail bond and by imposing various other conditions including surrendering his passport.
Meanwhile, another person, Ilyas Hoth, who was arrested on charges of teasing a lioness during an illegal lion show, has not been granted bail by the high court even a year after his arrest. The viral footage of the lion show had created a controversy last year.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/hc-grants-bail-to-man-held-for-filming-asiatic-lions/articleshow/76862625.cms
The person released on bail was Hala Naeem Mohmad Soyab, a resident of Veraval. He was the third person who has got bail in this incident of filming the lions on January 22. The forest department booked him along with two others under Sections 2(16), 2(17), 2(20), 2(31), 2(36), 2(37), 9, 39, 50, 51 and 52 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, for causing disturbance to wild animals, chasing them in a vehicle and filming them.
A sessions court in Veraval had denied bail to Soyab, which compelled him to approached the high court last month. He submitted that he was innocent and that the lions had strayed into the revenue area and filming them in revenue areas cannot be an offence. He was not involved in any hunting activity and it was not such a serious offence.
On Monday, Justice A C Joshi ordered to release Soyab on bail on his furnishing Rs 15,000 bail bond and by imposing various other conditions including surrendering his passport.
Meanwhile, another person, Ilyas Hoth, who was arrested on charges of teasing a lioness during an illegal lion show, has not been granted bail by the high court even a year after his arrest. The viral footage of the lion show had created a controversy last year.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/hc-grants-bail-to-man-held-for-filming-asiatic-lions/articleshow/76862625.cms
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