Bhima Koregaon violence: No relief for arrested ‘Urban Naxals’ as SC sets aside Bombay HC order refusing extra time to file chargesheet
Op IndiaThe Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the Bombay High Court order refusing to grant 90 days extension to Maharashtra Police for filing the charge sheet in the Bhima Koregaon violence case, giving no relief to five arrested ‘Urban Naxals’ named in the violence, reports ANI. According to the reports, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and L Nageswara Rao setting aside the judgement said that the five alleged ‘Urban Naxals’-Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen, Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut and Sudhir Dhavale may now seek regular bail in the case as the Maharashtra Police has already filed the charge sheet. Read also: Rona Wilson: the JNU alumnus who is accused of plotting PM Modi’s assassination The arrested accused had claimed that they were entitled to grant of default bail in the case as the Maharashtra Police did not file the charge sheet within the specified 90 days period and the extension granted by the trial court to the police was bad in law. Apart from these ten alleged ‘Urban Naxals’, in a nation-wide crackdown, the police had arrested activist P Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, ‘human rights activist’ and ‘journalist’ Gautam Navlakha in Delhi, ‘activists Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Pereira in Mumbai, ‘civil rights’ lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj in Delhi, civil rights ‘activist’ Anand Teltumbde in Goa and ‘activist’ Stan Swamy in Ranchi in relation with Elgar Parishad violence and plot to kill the Prime Minister Modi.