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Convict granted interim bail to get married

MADURAI: V. Vetri Selvan (39), a Sri Lankan convict undergoing 11 years rigorous imprisonment in the Tiruchi Central Prison for attempting to smuggle 11 kg of heroin, was a happy man on Tuesday.

His lover, a 29-year-old girl from Tiruchi, succeeded in persuading the Madras High Court Bench here to grant him interim bail for four days to attend their wedding scheduled for Wednesday as well as his sister’s marriage on Thursday.

Moved by an affidavit filed by the girl that she fell in love with the convict, who was her neighbour in Tiruchi, and was steadfast in marrying him at any cost, Justice T. Sudanthiram directed the jail authorities to set the convict free until Friday evening.

Opposing the application for interim bail, Additional Public Prosecutor said the convict was making false claims of marriage. He said that an enquiry conducted by the police revealed that no such marriage was scheduled for Wednesday.

However, petitioner’s counsel W. Peter Ramesh Kumar produced marriage invitations of the convict as well as his sister and the receipts issued for paying rent to a hotel where they had arranged for a reception on the evening of the marriage.

The Judge accepted the documents and ordered the release of the convict on condition that he should produce sufficient sureties to the satisfaction of Judicial Magistrate V here. Immediately, the bride and her counsel rushed to the Magistrate.

The convict was arrested at the Tiruchi airport in 2003 for possessing heroin worth Rs.7.5 crore in the international market.

A Special Court for Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Act convicted him in 2004 and an appeal against the conviction was pending before the Bench.

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