NIA Court Rejects Pleas to Cancel Bail of 4 Elgar Parishad Case Accused
The court said the NIA failed to show the four accused used the Press Club gathering to advance banned Maoist activities.
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NIA court rejects pleas to cancel bail of 4 Elgar Parishad case accused
MUMBAI: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Saturday rejected the NIA’s pleas to cancel the bail of four Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case accused -- Telugu poet-activist P Varavara Rao, lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, and activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, for participating in an event at the Mumbai Press Club earlier this year
Elgar Parishad case: Court rejects NIA plea to cancel 4 activists' bail
A Mumbai special court rejected the NIA's bid to cancel the bail of four activists in the Elgar Parishad case. The court said the agency had not shown sufficient evidence of any bail violation, though it cautioned them to be more careful.
The special NIA court rejected the NIA's request to cancel the bail of four accused in the Elgar Parishad case. The court stated that the presence of the accused does not constitute a violation of the bail conditions. The court stated that concrete evidence is necessary for the cancellation of bail. Mere presence cannot be used as a basis.
Court refuses to cancel bail of four Elgar case accused over Press Club gathering
Mumbai, Aug 29 (PTI) A special court here on Saturday refused to cancel the bail of four accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, holding that there was no evidence they had attended a Press Club gathering here to deliberate on plans for spreading urban Naxalism. The court, however, cautioned them to take “proper care” […]
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