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Designated judge A P Bhangale told Afroz to furnish a sum of Rs 100,000 with two sureties for a like amount.
Like on a previous occasion, Afroz told the judge that he wanted to stay in prison after having sought freedom.
On April three, Afroz wrote a letter to his lawyer Mubin Solkar from prison expressing his desire to seek freedom. Accordingly, Solkar filed a bail petition in the court.
Owing to his previous record, the judge insisted on hearing the accused in person.
Accordingly, Afroz was produced before the judge.
Once in court, he refused to be let out on bail claiming that he wanted to carry on with a meditation course inside the prison.
Outside the jail, the course would cost him Rs 5000 while in prison it was absolutely free of charge, Afroz told the court.
The judge, however, insisted that the bail petition would have to be decided since it had been filed in the court.
The judge turned down Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam's suggestion to consider the oral plea of the accused of not wishing to avail of bail at this stage.
Twenty-six-year-old Afroz was arrested on December three last year and charged with four cases of robbery, in which he was recently discharged.
Investigations later suggested that he was involved in terrorist activities and he was booked in a fresh case of sedition.
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