Bombay High Court Grants Bail To Gautam Navlakha In Bhima Koregaon Case
In the case involving the Elgar Parishad and Maoist connections, activist Gautam Navlakha was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. According to a division bench led by Justice A S Gadkari, Navlakha’s request for bail 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 for it to file an appeal with the Supreme Court. In November of last year, the Supreme Court approved Gautam Navlakha’s placement under house arrest. Navlakha was taken into custody in August of 2018. For the time being, he lives in Navi Mumbai. Let’s be with the reading.
Bhima Koregaon Case
In exchange for a ₹1 lakh surety, the Bombay High Court granted Gautam Navlakha bail. He is the seventh defendant in the case to be released on bond. A special court denied Gautam Navlakha bail in April of this year, citing prima facie evidence that the activist was an active participant in the outlawed CPI (Maoist). Gautam Navlakha claimed that the special court had erred in denying him bail in his high court appeal. In this second round of appeals, Navlakha is asking the high court for regular bail. Following the special NIA court’s September 2018 rejection of Navlakha’s regular bail request, he had previously filed a petition with the high court.
The NIA then objected to Navlakha’s bail request, saying that his connection to the organization was demonstrated by the fact that he was introduced to a Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) General for his recruitment. Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves, activists charged in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, were ordered to appear before a special court in Mumbai in August of this year. The Supreme Court had granted them bail. In the Elgar Parishad Bhima Koregaon case, the police assert that remarks made during the Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune on December 31, 2017, which contained inflammatory content, incited violence the following day in the vicinity of the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial, which is situated 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 allege receives funding from the Maoists, has members that they want to arrest. They have carried out raids in Pune, Delhi, and other Indian cities. In this case, up to 16 activists have been detained; five of them are currently free on bond. While poet Varavara Rao is currently free on bail due to health concerns, scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde, attorney Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, and Mahesh Raut are all out on regular bail. In this case, Gautam Navlakha is the seventh accused person to be granted bail.
