MAOIST LINKS

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 con...

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 hi...

A police head constable was fatally attacked by unidentified individuals in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district while he was visiting a fair in Gadiras village. The attackers used sharp-edged weapons, and the constable, Sodi Laxman, died at the scene. Aut...

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 ...

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.

The Supreme Court rejected Maharashtra government's request for a stay on the acquittal of G N Saibaba and others in the Maoist links case. The court admitted the government's appeal against the well-reasoned Bombay High Court order by BHC. Saibaba ...

Addressing a press conference, the 58-year-old said he can't live without teaching and wants to resume his job as a professor. Saibaba was terminated from his service from DU's Ram Lal Anand College in 2021 after being implicated in the case. He sai...

The power of ideas is undeniable, capable of influencing individuals and societies. However, possessing material deemed controversial or undesirable by the state should not automatically incriminate individuals. The recent decision by the Nagpur ben...

Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, who was released from the Nagpur Central Jail after his acquittal in an alleged Maoist links case, expressed wonder at his ability to come out alive despite suffering a "brutal" jail life. Saibaba, who ...

BJP's IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya posted the link of Raja's speech on X and said,"The hate speeches from DMK's stable continue unabated. After Udhayanidhi Stalin's call to annihilate Sanatan Dharma, it is now A Raja who calls for the balkanisatio...

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday acquitted former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba in an alleged Maoist links case, noting the prosecution failed to prove the case against him. The court also set aside the life sentence imp...

The Maharashtra government has challenged the Bombay High Court's decision to acquit former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba of links to the banned CPI (Maoist). The court acquitted Saibaba, set aside his life sentence, and acquitted five othe...

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 acqu...

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 staye...

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, noting that they have been in custody for five years. A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sudhanshu Dhulia said Gons...

The top court had earlier suspended the high court's order which had acquitted Saibaba and others from the case. The high court had acquitted Saibaba after more than eight years of arrest in 2014, noting that the sanction order issued to prosecute t...

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...

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...