In the bail plea of suspected Islamic State (IS) militant Areeb Majeed, facing trial for going to Syria to commit terror acts, Bombay High Court declined to vacate its stay on bail granted him recently by a trial court, The Times of India reports on April 9. The High Court has however stayed the bail till April 21. Majeed has been behind bars since his arrest on November 28, 2014. He is accused of having indulged in alleged terrorist activities in Iraq between May and November 2014 by joining IS, and was likely to commit them in India. Majeed’s defence, is that “he was, in fact, brought back to India with all necessary help by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers in consultation with his father, and that, those officers... were also present at the Airport at the time of arrival.’’