Bhima Koregaon case accused Surendra Gadling seeks bail from Bombay HC
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MUMBAI: Advocate Surendra Gadling, an accused within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case, has moved the Bombay High Court looking for `default’ bail or bail on technical grounds.
A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik on Wednesday requested the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file its response to Gadling’s plea.
He moved the excessive court docket via advocate Yashodeep Deshmukh after the particular NIA court docket rejected his bail utility in June 2022.
He had initially filed an utility for default bail in 2018 within the Pune classes court docket when the case was being probed by Pune Police.
The 90-day extension granted by the classes court docket to the police for submitting cost sheet was ‘unlawful’, and therefore the accused had been entitled for bail below the Code of Criminal Procedure, the applying mentioned.
In his petition earlier than the HC, Gadling claimed that the particular court docket didn’t think about the truth that the Pune court docket had “no jurisdiction to extend the time for completion of investigation.”
OPINION | Life and liberty within the Bhima Koregaon case
The NIA court docket additionally did not consider the results of the HC judgment which granted bail to co-accused Sudha Bharadwaj even when the information had been related, it mentioned.
A complete of 16 individuals had been arrested within the case together with Jesuit priest Stan Swamy who died at a non-public hospital whereas in judicial custody.
Activist Gautam Navlakha was the primary one to be granted common bail.
Telugu poet-activist Varavara Rao is out on medical bail.
The case pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered on the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed triggered violence the following day close to the Koregaon-Bhima warfare memorial in Pune district.
The Pune police additionally claimed that the conclave was backed by Maoists.
The probe was later transferred to the NIA.
MUMBAI: Advocate Surendra Gadling, an accused within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case, has moved the Bombay High Court looking for `default’ bail or bail on technical grounds.
A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik on Wednesday requested the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file its response to Gadling’s plea.
He moved the excessive court docket via advocate Yashodeep Deshmukh after the particular NIA court docket rejected his bail utility in June 2022.
He had initially filed an utility for default bail in 2018 within the Pune classes court docket when the case was being probed by Pune Police.
The 90-day extension granted by the classes court docket to the police for submitting cost sheet was ‘unlawful’, and therefore the accused had been entitled for bail below the Code of Criminal Procedure, the applying mentioned.
In his petition earlier than the HC, Gadling claimed that the particular court docket didn’t think about the truth that the Pune court docket had “no jurisdiction to extend the time for completion of investigation.”
OPINION | Life and liberty within the Bhima Koregaon case
The NIA court docket additionally did not consider the results of the HC judgment which granted bail to co-accused Sudha Bharadwaj even when the information had been related, it mentioned.
A complete of 16 individuals had been arrested within the case together with Jesuit priest Stan Swamy who died at a non-public hospital whereas in judicial custody.
Activist Gautam Navlakha was the primary one to be granted common bail.
Telugu poet-activist Varavara Rao is out on medical bail.
The case pertains to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered on the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed triggered violence the following day close to the Koregaon-Bhima warfare memorial in Pune district.
The Pune police additionally claimed that the conclave was backed by Maoists.
The probe was later transferred to the NIA.
