In a case involving Elgar Parishad and Maoist links, activist Gautam Navlakha was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. According to a bench headed by Justice AS Gadkari, Navlakha’s bail plea was “allowed”. The bench temporarily suspended the order for three weeks after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) requested that it be suspended for six weeks to file an appeal in the Supreme Court. Last November, the Supreme Court approved placing Gautam Navlakha under house arrest. Navlakha was taken into custody in August 2018. He currently lives in Navi Mumbai. Let’s keep reading.
The case of Bhima Koregaon
In exchange for a bail of ₹1 lakh, the Bombay High Court granted bail to Gautam Navlakha. He is the seventh defendant in this case who has been released on bail. A special court had denied bail to Gautam Navlakha in April this year, citing prima facie evidence that the activist was an active participant in the banned CPI (Maoist). Gautam Navlakha argued that the special court erred in denying him bail in his appeal to the high court. In this second round of appeals, Navlakha is seeking regular bail from the high court. After a special NIA court rejected Navlakha’s regular bail plea in September 2018, he previously filed a petition in the high court.
The NIA then opposed Navlakha’s bail plea, saying his association with the organization was proved by the fact that he was presented to a general of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for his recruitment. Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves, activists accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist nexus case, were ordered to appear before a special court in Mumbai in August this year. The Supreme Court granted them bail. In the Elgar Parishad Bhima Koregaon case, police alleged that remarks made during the Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune on December 31, 2017, which contained inflammatory content, sparked violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial, located on the outskirts of the city. in western Maharashtra.
Prominent activists, including Varavara Rao, Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navalakha, Anand Teltumbe, Stan Swamy, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, were among those arrested in the 2017–18 Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case. The Elgar Parishad, which the Maharashtra police claim receives funding from the Maoists, has members it wants to arrest. They conducted raids in Pune, Delhi and other Indian cities. In this case, up to 16 activists were detained; five are currently free on bail. While poet Varavara Rao is currently out on bail due to health issues, science activist Anand Teltumbde, lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira and Mahesh Raut have been released on regular bail. In this case, Gautam Navlakha is the seventh accused person to be granted bail.
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