Elgar Parishad case News

In the Bhima Koregaon case, the Bombay High Court today granted bail to scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde The High Court further stayed the order for one week on the NIA's request to appeal in the Supreme Court This means that 73-year-old Anand Teltumbde will not be able to walk out of jail till then

SC's oral remark came while it was hearing a plea filed by activist Gautam Navlakha that he be placed under house arrest instead of judicial custody in the Elgar Parishad case. 

A Bombay HC bench recused itself from hearing the bail pleas of Hany Babu and Gautam Navlakha The bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and VG Bisht was hearing the bail plea of Babu Navlakha has been lodged inside the high security 'anda cell' of the Taloja prison since October last year

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail by default to lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj.

Bombay HC extended Varavara Rao’s interim bail The court said Rao need not surrender till September 25 The NIA had opposed the bail plea

Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case is supposed to surrender before the Taloja prison authorities on September 5. Rao's counsel, senior advocate Anand Grover, sought an extension of bail before a bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar on Friday.

Varavara Rao is an accused in the Elgar Parishad case He was granted bail on medical grounds for a period of six months He is currently undergoing treatment in the Nanavati Hospital

The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed, triggered violence near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial in the district the next day.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's decision allowing National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the probe into the Elgar Parishad case from the state police has invited criticism from NCP supremo Sharad Pawar.