Activist Anand Teltumbde’s pre-arrest bail hearing on January 29
Vishwas Kothari | TNN | Updated: Jan 23, 2019, 11:21 IST
Representative image PUNE: Special judge K D Vadane on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of the Elgar Parishad case and the bail matters related to it to January 29 after district government pleader Ujjwala Pawar sought time for filing a written submission on activist Anand Teltumbde’s pre-arrest bail plea.
The Supreme Court (SC) on January 14 declined a plea to quash the FIR against Teltumbde and directed him to approach the trial court in Pune within four weeks for pre-arrest bail. He has since moved the trial court.
Pawar told TOI, “We sought the adjournment as we had not received the documents Teltumbde filed with his bail plea. We asked for the same and the court has now provided us the documents.”
The bail pleas of seven of the nine activists arrested so far in the case for their alleged links with the banned CPI (Maoist) outfit were also to be heard. But the court opted for hearing all these matters together on January 29. It is the police’s case that the Maoists were behind the Elgar Parishad held in Pune on December 31, 2017, and provocative speeches at this event led to the January 1, 2018, caste clashes at Koregaon Bhima. The seven applicants are — Surendra Gadling, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut, all arrested on June 6, and Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and P Varavara Rao.
The Pune police had taken Ferreira and Gonsalves back into their custody on October 26 at the end of a four-week protection granted by the SC. Rao was taken back into custody on November 17 after he exhausted his options of seeking relief from the Hyderabad high court.
Ferreira, Gonsalves and Rao, along with Sudha Bharadwaj and Gautam Navlakha, were arrested on August 28. But the SC had initially placed them under house arrest. On September 28, the SC asked the Pune police to continue with their investigation and gave four-week time to the activists to seek relief.
The Supreme Court (SC) on January 14 declined a plea to quash the FIR against Teltumbde and directed him to approach the trial court in Pune within four weeks for pre-arrest bail. He has since moved the trial court.
Pawar told TOI, “We sought the adjournment as we had not received the documents Teltumbde filed with his bail plea. We asked for the same and the court has now provided us the documents.”
The bail pleas of seven of the nine activists arrested so far in the case for their alleged links with the banned CPI (Maoist) outfit were also to be heard. But the court opted for hearing all these matters together on January 29. It is the police’s case that the Maoists were behind the Elgar Parishad held in Pune on December 31, 2017, and provocative speeches at this event led to the January 1, 2018, caste clashes at Koregaon Bhima. The seven applicants are — Surendra Gadling, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut, all arrested on June 6, and Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and P Varavara Rao.
The Pune police had taken Ferreira and Gonsalves back into their custody on October 26 at the end of a four-week protection granted by the SC. Rao was taken back into custody on November 17 after he exhausted his options of seeking relief from the Hyderabad high court.
Ferreira, Gonsalves and Rao, along with Sudha Bharadwaj and Gautam Navlakha, were arrested on August 28. But the SC had initially placed them under house arrest. On September 28, the SC asked the Pune police to continue with their investigation and gave four-week time to the activists to seek relief.
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