India, March 29 -- The Bombay high court on Friday granted bail to a practicing advocate, Shaikh Sadique Isaq Qureshi, arrested in September 2022 for alleged connection with banned Popular Front of India (PFI) and for allegedly conspiring against the government of India by spreading religious and extremist ideology to establish an Islamic State.

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) filed a criminal complaint in 2022 against Qureshi and four others, namely Mazhar Khan, Momin Moinuddin Gulam Hussain alias Moin Mistry, Mohammad Iqbal Ibrahim Khan and Mohammad Asif Adhikari, for arranging programmes at Dharavi, Kurla, Chembur and Trombay, with the alleged objective to establish the rule of their own religion and to substitute the Const...