Elgar Parishad Case: Bail Plea Of DU Professor Rejected
Elgar Parishad case: bail plea of DU professor and three others rejected.
In the Elgar Parishad case, the NIA Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of four accused, including Professor Honey Babu of Delhi University. All of them are currently lodged in Taloja Jail, Mumbai.
Earlier this month, the Bombay High Court had given the Maharashtra government two weeks to respond to the review petition of three activists accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist linkage case.
Elgar Parishad case: Let us inform you that in the petition, the previous order of the court has been challenged in which he was denied default bail.
Justice S. s. Shinde and N. J. Jamdar’s bench had directed the officials to file their reply on the plea of activists Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, and Vernon Gonsalves.
The three undertrial accused have challenged the December 1, 2021 order passed by the bench which granted default bail to advocate Sudha Bharadwaj, co-accused in the case.
But denied default bail to several other accused.
Special Judge D.E. Kothalikar rejected the bail applications filed by Babu and co-accused Sagar Gorkha, Ramesh, and Jyoti Jagtap.
All the three co-accused in the case are members of Kabir Kala Manch. Babu was arrested from his residence in Delhi on July 28, 2020, and is presently lodged in Taloja Jail, Navi Mumbai.
The remaining three accused were arrested in September 2020 and have been in jail since then.
The case pertains to alleged provocative speeches made at the ‘Elgar Parishad’ conference held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017.
The police claimed led to violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima War Memorial. The Pune Police had claimed that the conference was backed by Maoists.
Supreme Court hearing in Tata-Mistry case today.
The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday the dispute between the Tata Group and its former chairman Cyrus Mistry.
In a judgment last year, the court had upheld the Tata Group’s decision to remove Mistry from the post of chairman. Mistry had filed a review petition against this decision.
A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices AS Bopanna and V. Ramasubramaniam will hear the matter on Tuesday.
