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Bombay HC Extends Relief From Arrest to Gautam Navlakha, Others Till Thursday

A bench will hear on Thursday the activists’ petitions challenging the FIR registered against in the Bhima Koregaon case.

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday extended the relief by a day from arrest granted to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha, professor Anand Teltumbde and priest Stan Swamy in a case against them over the Bhima Koregaon violence and alleged links with Maoists.

A bench of Justices B.P. Dharamadhikari and Sarang Kotwal will hear on Thursday the petitions filed by the three activists, challenging the FIR registered against them by Pune Police on January 1 in connection with the Elgar Parishad event held on December 31, 2017.

The police had alleged that Maoists supported the Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune, which led to the violence.

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Several activists were named in the FIR. Some of them, including Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj, P Varavara Rao, and Gautam Navlakha, were initially put under house arrest on directions of the Supreme Court.

However, all of them except Navlakha were re-arrested and taken into custody by police recently.

Navlakha was released by the Delhi high court, after which he moved the Bombay high court seeking to quash the FIR against him.

Teltumbde and Swamy are yet to be arrested in the case.

Bombay HC Says Gautam Navlakha, Two Others Can’t Be Arrested Till November 21

The court was hearing Navlakha, Stan Swamy and Anand Teltumbde’s plea to squash the FIR the Maharashtra police has filed against them in the Bhima Koregaon case. 

New Delhi: The Bombay high court on Thursday extended the interim protection from arrest granted to activists Gautam Navlakha, Stan Swamy and Anand Teltumbde till November 21. The court was hearing the activists’ plea to squash the FIR the Maharashtra police has filed against them in relation to the Bhima Koregaon case.

The bench posted the matters for hearing on November 21 after noting that petitions pertaining to the case were pending before the Supreme Court. Earlier, the court had restrained police from arresting the activists until November 1.

“We will wait and see what order the Supreme Court passes in those matters. Till the next date of hearing, the interim relief shall continue,” the bench said.

Lawyer Yug Mohit Chaudhry, who is appearing for Navlakha, told the court that the Pune police have arrested eminent people and distinguished scholars but no evidence has been produced before any court, Indian Express reported.

While Navlakha was put under house arrest in the case, Teltumbde and Swamy were not arrested.

Apart from Navlakha, the police had, on August 28, also arrested activists Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Sudha Bharadwaj for their alleged links with Maoists.

The police had alleged that Maoists had supported the Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune, which had led to the violence.

Navlakha was released by the Delhi high court, after which he moved the Bombay high court seeking to quash the FIR against him.

(With PTI inputs)