Supreme Court lets Tahir Hussain come out of jail for 12 hours daily till Feb 3

Tahir Hussain’s lawyer on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that he was not pressing for interim bail any longer and sought custody parole

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted custody parole to former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Mohammad Tahir Hussain in cases related to the 2020 Delhi riots, permitting him to come out of jail for 12 hours every day from January 29 till February 3 to canvas for votes in the assembly elections.

Hussain, who is contesting as an All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) candidate from Mustafabad constituency, has undertaken to bear the estimated expenditure of a little over ₹2 lakh per day to be incurred on his security.