India, May 3 -- The Bombay High Court has granted bail to Sayyed Aakif Sayyad Zafaruddin, a life convict in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case, primarily on grounds of lack of adequate material to implicate him in the crime and his imprisonment spanning 20 years, or half of the period he is supposed to serve.

"There is no material to show that the applicant was directly or indirectly involved in the procurement and transportation of the subject arms, ammunition and the explosive," a division bench of justices Suman Shyam and Shyam C Chandak said on Thursday while granting bail to the 44-year-old convict during pendency of his appeal.

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had, on May 9, 2006, intercepted a jeep and a car along Yeola...