The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the National Investigative Agency’s plea which challenged the bail of Anand Teltumbde in Elgar Parishad case of 2018. The Challenge by the NIA came after Teltumbde was granted bail by the Bombay High court on November 18.

The Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud had upheld the Bombay courts order of Teltumbde’s bail. While hearing the case, CJI Chandrachud also questioned NIA’s Legal representative the reason of bringing up the charges of UAPA into actions against Teltumbde

The Apex Court had also added during their judgement that observation of High Court shall not be treated as conclusive conclusion in all proceeedings.

Bombay High court had previously granted bail to 72-year old activist Anand Teltumbde in the Elgar Parishad case. The NIA had protested against the bail order and further requested a stay for the agency to seek intervention from the Supreme Court.

The Bombay High Court agreed to NIA’s request and stayed the bail order for a week after which the NIA sought to intervention of the Supreme Court in the case.

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Bombay High court bail order

Bombay High court constituted of Justice AS Gadkari and Milind Jhadav had announced the bail of Anand Teltumbde with a surety of Rs 1 Lakh on November 18. The Bombay High court had observed that only the offences relating to membership in a terrorist organizations were charged on Teltumbde by the Agency only had 10 years of maximum punishment the offences charged against Teltumbde.

Teltumbde had rebutted to NIA’s and countered that the NIA had misrepresented him as a terrorist under the UAPA and highlighted that there were no charges against him of direct violence.

Anand Teltumbde’s bail plea also claimed that he was not present at the Elgar Parishad event and nor had made provocative speeches.

Elgar Parishad Event

The event held in December 31, 2017 to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Koregaon Bhima was organised by a coalition of NGO in Pune. Subsequently after the event, in January clashes broke out between two caste groups which led to a death and many injuries.

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