SC grants bail to Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case
Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, lodged in jail since August 2018, in Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. The court said, «it grants bail to Gonsalves and Ferreira while considering that almost 5 years lapsed since they were taken into custody.
There is a case for bail.» A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sudhanshu Dhulia said Gonsalves and Ferreira shall not leave Maharashtra and surrender their passports to the police. It also directed the two activists to use one mobile each and let the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the case, know their addresses.
The activists had moved the top court against a Bombay High Court order rejecting their bail pleas. The case pertains to the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which according to the Pune police was funded by Maoists.
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