The Bombay High Court on Wednesday reserved for orders a petition filed by eight accused in the Bhima Koregaon - Elgar Parishad caste violence case challenging cognisance of the charge sheet by a sessions judge in Pune and seeking default bail. The accused have filed the appeal against the Sessions court's order rejecting the default bail application under Section 167 …
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the accused's plea in the 2018 Elgar Parishad case. The accused- Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson, Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut, Vernon Gonsalves, and Arun Ferreira, had sought bail on the grounds that Pune Sessions Judge RM Pande lacked jurisdiction to take cognisance of the charge sheet as original jurisdiction …
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj's default bail plea in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad caste violence case. The bench had earlier observed that the HC's records were consistent with Bharadwaj's RTI documents demonstrating that the Pune Judge was not notified as a Special Court under the NIA Act. Therefore, the …
