JUDGMENT :

M.M.Sundresh, J.

This Criminal Appeal has been filed by the 9th accused in Crl.M.P.No.217 of 2019 in R.C.No.06/2019/NIA/DLI, which came to be dismissed by the learned Sessions Judge for Exclusive Trial of Bomb Blast Cases, Poonammallee by its order dated 24.06.2019.

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 05.02.2019 the deceased Ramalingam raised objections against the Dawah work as poor and back-trodden people were forced to convert Islam. The deceased took offensive of the conversion programme of the accused. During the protest and altercation, the deceased removed the skullcap of one of the muslim in Dawah programme and worn by him and applied sacred ashes on the forehead of the muslim and recorded the same in his mobile and uploaded in the social media. Thereby the deceased exhibited his protest by defending the rights of the Hindus. Irked by the protest against their Dawah work and subsequent altercation with the deceased, A1 to A5, A17 & A18 along with other accused belonging to Popular Front of India (PFI) and its political organisation Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) had conspired to wage Jihad against the deceased, who is a non-Muslim.

3. At about 08.30 p.