A 75-year-old man, who allegedly attempted to exhume a dead body was Tuesday granted bail of N100,000 by Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court.
The Magistrate, Mrs Modupe Afeniforo who gave the ruling, also granted the accused two sureties in like sum.
Afeniforo said one of the sureties must be a civil servant not below level 8 and that sureties should reside within the jurisdiction of the court.
Luiz, who reside at Orun-Ekiti, Ekiti state, pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of unlawfully digging of grave.
Earlier, Oriyomi Akinwale, the police prosecutor had told the court that the accused committed the offence at Orun-Ekiti on June 21, 2016.
Akinwale alleged that the accused was brought to the police station when the offence was committed in 2016, and they were told to go and settle amicably, which they find difficult to do so.
He said the accused and the dead woman, Mrs Folawewo Luiz, who was buried in the grave used to live together as siblings before she died five years ago without any child.
The prosecutor said when the wife of the accused died he dug his sister’s grave and exhumed her bones to bury his wife in the same grave, an action the family frowned at it hence his arrest.
Akinwale noted that the offence is punishable under section 249(d) of the Criminal Code Cap C16 Law of Ekiti State 2012.
The court has adjourned the case to March 19 for mention.
