Relief For Activist Sudha Bharadwaj, Supreme Court Dismisses NIA's Plea
NDTV
Sudha Bharadwaj is the first among 16 activists and academicians arrested in the case to have been granted default bail.
There is no reason to interfere in the Bombay High Court order granting bail to lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj in the Koregaon-Bhima case, the Supreme Court said today, dismissing a plea filed by the National Investigation Agency challenging the order.
In jail since 2018, Sudha Bharadwaj was granted default bail this month by the Bombay High Court, which said that a court that extended the investigation against her and prolonged her detention did not have the jurisdiction to do so.
The bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar, which passed the order, however, directed a Mumbai special NIA court to take up the case on December 8 and decide on the conditions of her bail and date of release.
Additional Solicitor General Aman Lekhi, representing the NIA, today appealed to the Supreme Court bench to consider the probe agency's submission arguing that the High Court did not consider certain sections of the UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967) while granting the default bail.
