Elgar Parishad case | Bombay High Court refuses to grant bail to Delhi University professor Hany Babu
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A division Bench of Justices N. M. Jamdar and N. R. Borkar said the appeal filed by Hany Babu against the special court order refusing him bail was dismissed.
The Bombay High Court on September 19 rejected the bail plea filed by Delhi University's associate professor Hany Babu, who is an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A division Bench of Justices N. M. Jamdar and N. R. Borkar said the appeal filed by Hany Babu against the special court order refusing him bail was dismissed.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is conducting a probe into the case, has accused Mr. Babu of being a co-conspirator in propagating Maoist activities and ideology on the instructions of leaders of the banned CPI (Maoist) organisation.
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Hany Babu was arrested in July 2020 in the case and is currently lodged at the Taloja prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.
The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held in Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which police claimed triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon Bhima war memorial located on the city’s outskirts. One person was killed and several others were injured in the violence.
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