NEW DELHI: The
Supreme Court Wednesday extended the house arrest of five rights activists, who were arrested from several cities in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence case, till on Thursday.
A bench of Chief Justice
Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud will continue with the hearing on Thursday on the plea filed by historian
Romila Thapar and four others.
At the last hearing in the case on September 17, the top court had said it may order a probe by a special investigating team (SIT) if it found that the evidence has been "cooked up". It had also said that the material, supporting the arrest of the five activists in the case, needed to be examined.
