New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has turned down the bail plea of a man booked under the Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Act by the Gujarat police for his alleged subversive activities and role in a conspiracy to create communal unrest in the wake of the Godhra train carnage.

A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and P Sathasivam, upheld the findings of the trial court and the Gujarat High Court which had both reasoned that sufficient material had been brought on record by the prosecution to justify the denial of bail to Mahmood Rajasa Saiyed.

Saiyed was arrested by the State police in 2003, for being engaged in a conspiracy to create communal unrest in the State in the wake of the Godhra train massacre.

Police claimed to have recovered from him incriminating material including firearms sought to be used for the purpose.