By Online Desk
The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to former IIT professor and Dalit scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case. Teltumbde had approached the HC last year against the rejection of his bail plea by a special NIA court.
The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held at 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. The case, in which over a dozen activists and academicians have been named accused, was initially probed by the Pune police before it was taken over by the NIA.
The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to former IIT professor and Dalit scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case. Teltumbde had approached the HC last year against the rejection of his bail plea by a special NIA court.
The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held at 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. The case, in which over a dozen activists and academicians have been named accused, was initially probed by the Pune police before it was taken over by the NIA.
