
Prof. Anand Teltumbde arrives at NIA office to give up in Bhima Koregaon case, in Mumbai.|Image Credit: Vivek Bendre
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The activist had looked for momentary bail specifying in his plea that he was struggling with respiratory problems and was at threat of contracting the COVID-19 infection while in jail.
An unique court here on Saturday remanded activist Anand Teltumbde to judicial custody in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case and rejected his plea for temporary bail, which he sought in view of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The National Examination Agency (NIA) had apprehended the Dalit scholar on April 14 after he surrendered before it following the Supreme Court’s instructions.
Mr. Teltumbde, the grandson-in-law of Dalit icon Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, was produced prior to unique NIA court judge A.T. Wankehede, who remanded h