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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday “strongly opposed” the criminal appeal filed after interim medical bail of trade unionist and human rights legal representative Sudha Bharadwaj was turned down by the NIA court.

Advocate Ragini Ahuja representing Ms. Bharadwaj lodged at Byculla prison appeared before a division bench of Justices R.D. Dhanuka and V.G. Bisht at the Bombay High Court. She stated Ms. Bharadwaj was jailed on August 28, 2018 and has been in prison since nearly two years on charges under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in the Bhima Koregaon case.

She connected the medic