MUMBAI: A special
NIA court here on Tuesday remanded civil rights activist
Gautam Navlakha, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-alleged
Maoist links case, to judicial custody till June 22.
The activist, who surrendered before
the National Investigation Agency last month, was brought to the city by the agency earlier in the day and produced before the court.
Earlier, he was in judicial custody till June 22 in Delhi; the court here continued his remand.
Navlakha was sent to Taloja jail near Mumbai.
Booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, he surrendered before the NIA on April 14 after the Supreme Court denied him any relief.
He could not be brought to Mumbai earlier due to the nationwide lockdown, special public prosecutor Prakash Shetty said.
Navlakha and ten other civil liberties activists were booked under the UAPA for allegedly having links with Maoists and conspiring to overthrow the government.
The Pune police had registered the case initially following caste violence near Koregaon Bhima war memorial in the district.
According to police, inflammatory speeches and provocative statements at the
Elgar Parishad meet held in Pune on December 31, 2017, triggered the violence the next day.
Some of those who organised the meet had links with Maoists, they claimed.
During the probe, police arrested several left-wing writers and activists including Varavara Rao and Sudha Bharadwaj.
The case was later transferred to NIA by the Union government.