Kochi, Thursday 11 March 2010: The National Investigation Agency has opposed the petition filed by Sufiya Maudani, wife of PDP leader Abdul Nasar Maudani and the 10th accused in a Tamil Nadu bus burning case in 2005,seeking relaxation of her bail conditions.

Earlier, the Ernakulam Sessions court had granted her conditional bail after she was arrested in December 2009. It had directed her not to leave Ernakulam district and appear before investigating officials as and when required.

Sufiya Maudani, in her petition filed before the CBI Special Court Ernakulam, which is considering terror-related cases in Kerala, sought relaxation of the bail conditions to enable her visit her ailing husband in Thiruvananthapuram and her mother.

Opposing Sufiya’s petition, NIA said she is the wife of a prominent leader of a party and that if the bail conditions were relaxed, she might influence witnesses and tamper with the investigations. She is the main ‘conspirator’ in the case, NIA alleged in their written objection.

Sufiya was listed as accused in the case in which a Tamil Nadu Corporation bus was torched at Kalamassery in Kochi in September 2005 to protest against Maudani’s detention in Coimbatore jail over the Coimbatore blast case. The development came after Kerala police brought T Nazir, a suspected LeT operative, from Bangalore to question him in connection with the case.