On Wednesday, a two-judge bench of the Bombay High Court granted bail to Sudha Bharadwaj , an activist-lawyer who has been jailed since Aug...
On Wednesday, a two-judge bench of the Bombay High Court granted bail to Sudha Bharadwaj, an activist-lawyer who has been jailed since August 2018 in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case.
However, she will have to wait for a week until December 8 to appear before a special judge of the National Investigation Agency Court in Mumbai, who will decide the terms of the bail.
At the same time, the High Court rejected the bail pleas of eight other activists who were also arrested in relation to the same case on the grounds that they had not filed the application for “default bail” that Bharadwaj had filed.
These were Sudhir Dawale, Shoma Sen, Surendra Gadling, Maheash Raut, Rona Wilson, P Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira.
These activists, academics and lawyers were arrested for allegedly conspiring to spark the caste conflict that broke out at the
Bhima-Koregaon memorial near Pune on January 1, 2018. They have also been accused of having links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) and of plotting to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Under Section 167(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, the accused can only be detained up to a particular time. This, in the Bhima Koregaon case, would be 90 days. After...
