Mumbai: Bombay High Court has granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha, who was arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case in 2018. He has been living under house arrest because of his health issues. The National Investigation Agency urged the court to suspend the order for six weeks to that it can file an appeal in the Supreme Court. The court gave three weeks to the agency.
Gautam Navlakha was arrested in August 2018. In November last year, the top court allowed him to be put under house arrest in Navi Mumbai.
According to PTI, the high court granted bail to Navlakha on a surety of ₹1 lakh.
Gautam Adlakha is the seventh accused in the Elgar Parishad case to have received bail.
A special court had refused bail to Navlakha in April, saying he prima facie had links to banned CPI (Maoist).
In his appeal filed in the high court, Navlakha said the special court had erred while refusing bail to him. This is Navlakha’s second round of appeal in the high court seeking regular bail. Navlakha had earlier moved the high court after the special NIA court rejected his regular bail plea in September last year.
