Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case: SC seeks NIA’s stand on plea seeking interim bail

Senior advocate Mihir Desai, appearing for Raut, submitted that this is an interim bail plea to go to Gadchiroli to attend the ceremonies after the death of his grandmother.

The top court in September last year extended the stay granted by the Bombay High Court on the implementation of its verdict granting bail to Raut.

The NIA had earlier challenged in the top court the 21 September order of the Bombay High Court granting bail to 33-year-old Raut, who was arrested in June 2018 and is presently lodged in judicial custody at the Taloja prison.

After the high court had pronounced its verdict on 21 September, the counsel representing the NIA had sought the stay on the operation of its order to enable the probe agency to challenge it before the Supreme Court.

The case pertains to the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on 31 December 2017, which according to the Pune Police was funded by Maoists.

The inflammatory speeches made there led to violence at the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial in Pune the next day, police had alleged.

The case was later probed by the NIA.

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