Mumbai, June 14: Bombay High Court today adjourned till June 28 the hearing of a petition filed by Mohammed Afroze urging the government to pay Rs 10 crore as compensation for his alleged prolonged detention. The division bench comprising Justices D G Deshpande and A S Agyar fixed the date June 28 as for the next hearing. In his petition, Afroze had challenged the police action against him. He had submitted that the Mumbai police had not obtained the mandatory permission from the Centre to book him for waging war against the country.
He has also contended that he was booked under the erstwhile Prevention Of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO), but later the charge was withdrawn as there was no evidence to substantiate it.
Afroze had earlier retracted his alleged confessional statement recorded by a local court regarding his complicity in a plot to blow up prominent landmarks in India, the UK and Australia after the September 11 terror attacks in the United States.


Bureau Report