Gautam Navlakha gets big relief in Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, Supreme Court grants bail
Elgar Parishad case: The Supreme Court has today granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha. The Supreme Court refused to extend the ban imposed on the orders of the Bombay High Court. Navlakha, who was arrested in August 2018, was allowed to be put under house arrest by the Supreme Court in November last year. He is currently living in Navi Mumbai.
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Today, in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist case, the Supreme Court granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha. The ban imposed on the orders of the Bombay High Court was not extended by the Supreme Court at the same time. Remarkably, Gautam Navlakha, the activist, was ordered by the Supreme Court to reimburse the cost of his guards during his incarceration ($20 lakh).
The top court said Navlakha has been in jail for more than four years and charges have not been framed yet in the case. The Bombay High Court had granted bail to Navlakha on December 19 last year but stayed its order for three weeks after the NIA sought time to file an appeal in the top court.
Navlakha, who was arrested in August 2018, was allowed to be put under house arrest by the Supreme Court in November last year. He is currently living in Navi Mumbai.
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The case pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches given at the Elgar Parishad conference held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which police claim sparked violence near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial on the outskirts of the western Maharashtra city the next day. Was. 16 activists have been arrested in this case and five of them are currently out on bail.
