Prima Facie Deep Involvement With RDF & Maoist Activities: Bombay High Court Refuses Bail To DU Professor Hany Babu In Elgar Parishad Case
Live LawDelhi University Professor Hany Babu mobilising rallies and co-ordinating the defence of convicted professor GN Saibaba was not just helping a fellow academic, but prima facie following a leftist handbook, the Bombay High Court said in its order refusing him bail. Prof Babu was arrested by the National Investigating Agency on July 28, 2020 in the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad larger conspiracy case. The court relied on a "Secrecy Handbook" allegedly recovered from Babu on setting up a secret network and avoiding surveillance, which explicitly states that "if one comrade is arrested, other comrades must do everything to help…by providing legal representation, publicity and organising protest." "Having considered the totality of the material on record indicating accusations against the Appellant, we find that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accusations of the NIA against the Appellant having conspired, attempted, advocated and abetted the commission of a terrorist act/s and the act/s of preparatory to the commission of a terrorist act, are prima facie true."