A sessions court on Monday granted bail to two accused arrested in connection with the Azad Maidan violence, including one who allegedly desecrated the Amar Jawan memorial on August 11.

The accused, who desecrated the Amar Jawan memorial, was identified as Shahbad Abdul Kadir Shaikh and the other accused was identified as Niyaz.

The police, on November 9, had filed a 3,384-page charge sheet in a local court against 58 accused in the August 11 riot case. Two people died and 92 were injured in violence at a rally at Azad Maidan held to protest against alleged atrocities faced by Muslims in Assam and Myanmar. The rally turned ugly when some men started pelting stones at media persons and their vehicles as well as at the policemen present.

Meanwhile, the metropolitan magistrate’s court also extended the custody of the rally’s main organiser Maulana Ahmed Raza. “His custody was extended till December 15,” said his advocate Sharif Sheikh.

Raza, general secretary of an NGO, Madina-tul-ilm, has been booked on charges of murder, conspiracy, rioting, causing damage to public and private properties and unlawful assembly.