Elgar Parishad case: Researcher Rona Wilson, activist Sudhir Dhawale walk out of prison on getting bail
The Hindu
Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawale released on bail after over six years in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
Researcher Rona Wilson and activist Sudhir Dhawale, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, were on Friday (January 24, 2025) released on bail from a Navi Mumbai prison, more than six years after they were arrested.
The duo walked out of the Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai at around 1:30 pm on completion of bail formalities before the special NIA court presiding over the case, over a fortnight after they were granted bail by the Bombay High Court.
The HC granted bail to Wilson and Dhawale on January 8, noting they had been in jail since 2018 and the trial in the case, in which anti-terror act UAPA has been invoked, was yet to start.
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"They are in jail since 2018. Even the charges in the case are yet to be framed. The prosecution has cited over 300 witnesses, thus there is no possibility of the trial concluding in the near future," the HC observed while granting them relief.
A trial starts after charges are framed in a criminal case.
Apart from Dhawale and Wilson, 14 other activists and academicians were arrested in the case. Eight of them — Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Anand Teltumbde, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Shoma Sen, Gautam Navlakha and Mahesh Raut — have been granted bail till now.
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