ELGAR PARISHAD CASE
Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case: SC grants two-week interim bail to activist Mahesh Raut
The Supreme Court has granted interim bail for activist Mahesh Raut, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, for attending rituals following his grandmother's death. The bail will begin on June 26 and end on July 10, 2024. The terms and conditions of the release will be determined by a special court, and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) can request stringent conditions.
Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case: SC seeks NIA's stand on activist's plea seeking interim bail
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to provide instructions regarding a plea filed by activist Mahesh Raut, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, seeking interim bail to attend rituals following his grandmother's death. A vacation bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Augustine George Masih scheduled the matter for hearing on June 21. The court questioned the necessity for further ceremonies, noting that the funeral had already taken place on May 26.
Elgar Parishad case: SC grants bail to Gautam Navlakha
The Supreme Court granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, refusing to extend the stay on his bail granted by the Bombay High Court. Navlakha, held for over four years without charges framed, was directed to pay Rs 20 lakh for security expenses during house arrest.
Can't escape liability to pay Rs 1.64 crore for security during house arrest: SC to Gautam Navlakha
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S V Raju, representing the NIA, said Rs 1.64 crore is due and 70-year-old Navlakha has to make the payment for the security provided during his house arrest.
Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case: SC grants bail to activist Shoma Kanti Sen
Shoma Kanti Sen, linked to Elgar Parishad-Maoist case, granted bail by Supreme Court with GPS monitoring. Conditions include staying in Maharashtra, informing NIA officer of residence. Case involves Elgar Parishad conclave triggering violence.
SC refuses to entertain Asaram's plea for suspension of sentence in rape case on health grounds
A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta asked senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi to approach the Rajasthan High Court for relief after he said Asaram was willing to accept the public prosecutor's suggestion that he could undergo treatment at Madhavbaug Heart Hospital in Maharashtra's Khopoli in police custody.
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NewsClick case: Delhi Police team goes to Mumbai to question activist Gautam Navlakha
NewsClick case: The FIR claimed that the Chinese foreign funds were allegedly distributed to activist Gautam Navlakha and associates of activists Teesta Seetalvad, her husband and Javed Anand, and journalists Urmilesh, Aratrika Halder, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Abhisar Sharma, and others.
Mumbai courts 2023: Naresh Goyal goes to jail, Sooraj Pancholi acquitted, bail for Elgar accused
In 2023, notable court developments in Mumbai included the judicial custody of Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal in a loan fraud case, the granting of bail to two accused in the 2018 Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case, and actor Sooraj Pancholi's acquittal in the Jiah Khan suicide case.
Elgar Parishad case: HC grants bail to Gautam Navlakha; stays order for 3 weeks
The Bombay High Court granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha, a defendant in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. The court accepted his plea, allowing bail on a surety of Rs 1 lakh. Navlakha, accused of being an active member of banned outfit CPI (Maoist), had earlier appealed after a special court denied him bail in April.
Elgar Parishad case: NIA opposes activist Shoma Kanti Sen's medical bail plea in SC
The high court had said the petitioner needed to approach the trial court afresh to seek bail so that the trial court could get an opportunity to assess the entire material available on record against her. It had disposed of the bail application and granted her liberty to approach the trial court for relief.
Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case: HC grants bail to Mahesh Raut
The Bombay High Court has granted bail to activist Mahesh Raut, who was arrested in the Elgar Parishad Maoist links case. Raut had sought bail on constitutional grounds, claiming that his custody was unwarranted. The court granted his plea and stayed the operation of its order for a week. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) requested a two-week stay on the order to file an appeal in the Supreme Court. Raut is one of 16 activists arrested in the case, with five currently out on bail.
Elgar case: Activists Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira to walk out of jail as court issues their release order
Activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, are likely to walk out of jail on Saturday as a special court here has issued their release order, a week after they were granted bail by the Supreme Court.
SC grants bail to Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, lodged in jail since August 2018, in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. The court said, "it grants bail to Gonsalves and Ferreira while considering that almost 5 years lapsed since they were taken into custody. There is a case for bail."
Elgar Parishad case: NIA opposes Gautam Navlakha's plea to be put in house arrest in Alibag area
Senior advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan, appearing for 70-year-old Navlakha, opposed the NIA submission and said they can negotiate with the probe agency the area where he can be put under house arrest. "The house at Alibag is in the same district as Taloja jail, where he was lodged How does the distance matter?" Ramakrishnan said. The bench asked Raju to put the objection of the agency in writing and posted the matter for further hearing on August 18.
SC directs activist Gautam Navlakha to pay Rs 8 lakh as expense for police protection during house arrest
The direction by a bench of Justices K M Joseph and B V Nagarathna was passed after Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S V Raju submitted that a total bill of Rs 66 lakh was pending. The top court also directed Raju to file reply within two weeks on Navlaka's plea seeking to be shifted from the public library in Mumbai, where he is under house arrest in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, to some other place in the city as the public library needed to be vacated.
Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case: Bombay HC issues notice to NIA on bail plea of Gautam Navlakha
The plea was listed for the first time on Monday before the division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and PD Naik. The bench issued notice to the National Investigation Agency on the bail plea of the accused. The matter will be posted for hearing in due course of time.
Elgar Parishad case accused Anand Teltumbde released from Navi Mumbai prison
"On Friday, the apex court had dismissed the NIA's plea challenging the Bombay High Court's order giving bail to Teltumbde. Accordingly, he was released after the completion of bail formalities," he said.
Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case: SC to hear on Friday NIA's appeal against Anand Teltumbde bail
Teltumbde, 73, is the third accused of the total 16 arrested in the case to be released on bail. Poet Varavara Rao is currently out on bail on health grounds, and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj is out on regular bail. The high court, however, had stayed its bail order for a week so that the NIA, the probe agency in the case, could approach the SC. Teltumbde will not be able to walk out of jail till then.
CPI(M) library, Agroli village: Gautam Navlakha's new address in Navi Mumbai during house arrest stay
Navlakha's release from Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai after more than two years came nine days after the Supreme Court granted his plea seeking house arrest on medical grounds.
Gautam Navlakha released from jail on medical grounds, will be in house arrest for 1 month
On Saturday evening, Gautam Navlakha, an accused in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was released from Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai and will live under house arrest for a month.
NIA moves SC against Navlakha's house arrest order, says he doesn't deserve any extra leeway
Contending Navlakha need not be given any special treatment, the NIA said in its application that he being a charge-sheeted accused in a case involving threat to national security and integrity, does not deserve any extra leeway. The anti-terror agency, while referring to the evidence on record, claimed Navlakha was working in urban areas and assigned the job to unite intellectuals against government forces to defeat them.
SC to hear plea of Gautam Navlakha, NIA on Friday in Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case
A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud on Thursday took note of the submissions of senior lawyer Nitya Ramakrishnan, appearing for Navlakha, that the apex court's November 10 direction to shift him from Navi Mumbai's Taloja prison to house arrest owing to his deteriorating health has not been compiled with so far.
Activist Gautam Navlakha likely to be released from jail on Friday
The Supreme Court granted jailed activist Gautam Navlakha's request for house arrest on Thursday. It said prima facie there is no reason to reject his medical report. A bench of Justices K M Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy said the house arrest order should be implemented within 48 hours.
Elgar Parishad case: Bombay HC refuses bail to activist Jyoti Jagtap
A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and M N Jadhav dismissed the appeal filed by 34-year-old Jagtap, challenging a February 2022 order of a special court refusing to grant her bail. "We are of the opinion that the NIA case is prima facie true. Hence the appeal stands dismissed," the court said.
Elgar Parishad case: Activist Arun Ferreira moves HC for default bail
In June 2019, a common application was filed by Ferreira and eight other accused in the case for default bail on the ground that the special court in Pune did not have the jurisdiction to take cognisance of the chargesheet filed by the Pune police, which was initially probing the case.
Of 16 accused in Elgar Parishad case, one dead, two out on bails and 13 lodged in jails
Only one accused - Sudha Bharadwaj - is out on regular bail, which was granted to her by the Bombay High Court in December last year, while 13 other accused are currently lodged in different jails.
Bhima Koregaon case: SC to hear Varavara Rao's plea for permanent medical bail on Tuesday
In his plea filed through advocate Nupur Kumar, Varavara Rao has said, "The petitioner is an 83-year-old renowned Telugu poet and orator, who has undergone over two years of incarceration as an under-trial, and is currently enlarged on bail on medical grounds by the Bombay HC respectfully submits that any further incarceration would ring the death knell for him as an advancing age and deteriorating health are a fatal combination".
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