he Delhi High Court has questioned the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for acting in “inexplicable, frantic hurry” to whisk away civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha to Mumbai, even when his interim bail plea was pending before the high court here.
Justice Anup J. Bhambhani, who conducted the hearing through video conferencing, remarked that the NIA moved applications across Mumbai and Delhi courts over weekends and Gazetted holidays and even obtained orders by e-mail, at the risk of rendering the interim bail plea proceedings infructuous.
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In last hearing, the high court had granted time to NIA to file its status report in response to Mr Navlakha’s interim bail plea.
While the NIA has filed an affidavit opposing that plea, it also acted in “unseemly haste to instead