By Own Correspondent| The matter of Stephen Sarkozy Chuma and others v The State was heard today before Justice Chitapi.

After powerful presentation by lawyer Tapiwa Muchineripi assisted by Job Sikhala the Judge agreed with the arguments of the two counsels.

The State was taken to task on how they classified a finable offense to be serious. Secondly, the Judge asked the reasoning of the Magistrate who denied our comrades bail on the grounds that they were arrested at the scene of the commission of the alleged offense when they were long arrested doing nothing before the outbreak of violence.

The State became hopeless when one Mapfuwa for the State lied to the Court that the comrades were caught with catapults and knives when such evidence was never produced at the Court aquo.

After being grilled by the Judge, he embarrassingly conceded that there were no grounds to deny our comrades bail. He then suggested that they be admitted to bail on 300 rtgs each the submission vehemently opposed by the lawyers.

The lawyers said bail should be measured by the ability of an accused person to pay. They are only able to pay 100 rtgs suggested by the Applicants.

The judge advised that he will give the judgement on Friday as he wants to deal with the two reasons in a comprehensive manner the Magistrate cited to deny the Applicants bail. But in short, the State has conceded the granting of bail to the comrades and we wait for the full judgement of their freedom on Friday the 20th of March 2020.