Elgar Parishad case: HC grants bail to Gautam Navlakha; stays order for 3 weeks

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday gave bail to activist Gautam Navlakha, detained in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. A department bench headed by Justice A S Gadkari stated Navlakha’s plea looking for bail was “enabled”. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) prompted the court to remain operation of the order for a duration of 6 weeks so that it might submit an appeal in the Supreme Court. The bench remained the order for 3 weeks. Navlakha, who was apprehended in August 2018, remained in November in 2015 allowed by the Supreme Court to be positioned under home arrest. He is living in Navi Mumbai at present. The high court given Navlakha bail on a surety of Rs 1 lakh. He is the seventh implicated in the event to be approved bail. In April this year, an unique court had actually declined to give bail to Navlakha, keeping in mind that there was prima facie proof to reveal that the activist was an active member of prohibited clothing CPI (Maoist). In his appeal submitted in the high court, Navlakha stated the unique court had actually erred while declining bail to him. This is Navlakha’s 2nd round of appeal in the high court looking for routine bail. Navlakha had earlier moved the high court after the unique NIA court declined his routine bail plea in September in 2015. The NIA had actually then opposed Navlakha’s bail plea, declaring that he had actually been presented to a Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) General for his recruitment, which reveals his nexus with the organisation. The high court had, nevertheless, suggest
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