Elgar Parishad case: HC grants bail to Gautam Navlakha; stays order for 3 weeks
The Hindu
Activist Gautam Navlakha granted bail in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case by Bombay High Court.
The Bombay High Court on December 19 granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A division bench headed by Justice A S Gadkari said Navlakha's plea seeking bail was "allowed".
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) urged the court to stay operation of the order for a period of six weeks so that it could file an appeal in the Supreme Court. The bench stayed the order for three weeks.
Navlakha, who was arrested in August 2018, was in November last year permitted by the Supreme Court to be placed under house arrest. He is residing in Navi Mumbai at present.
The high court granted Navlakha bail on a surety of Rs 1 lakh. He is the seventh accused in the case to be granted bail.
In April this year, a special court had refused to grant bail to Navlakha, noting that there was prima facie evidence to show that the activist was an active member of banned outfit CPI (Maoist).
In his appeal filed in the high court, Navlakha said the special court had erred while refusing bail to him.
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