Elgar Parishad case: NIA strikes SC in opposition to bail granted to Anand Teltumbde

Via PTI

NEW DELHI: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) Tuesday moved the Splendid Courtroom in opposition to the bail granted to scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case.

The Bombay Prime Courtroom on November 18 granted bail to Teltumbde noting that prima facie the one case made out in opposition to him pertains to alleged affiliation with a fear workforce and toughen given to it, for which the utmost punishment is 10 years in prison.

Teltumbde, 73, is the 3rd accused of the full 16 arrested within the case to be launched on bail.

Poet Varavara Rao is lately out on bail on well being grounds, and attorney Sudha Bharadwaj is out on common bail.

Alleging that the top courtroom has carried out a roving inquiry and a mini-trial, the NIA in its plea prior to the highest courtroom stated the top courtroom perused the costs within the fee sheet in isolation and made observations that might affect the trial.

“The observations of the top courtroom that no prima facie case is made out in opposition to the respondent herein is opposite to the observations made by means of this courtroom with regards to the exact same respondent in search of pre-arrest bail… The stated order additionally fails to keep in mind the cumulative impact of all of the previous lawsuits moved by means of the prevailing respondent within the rapid case the place all reliefs were denied by means of every discussion board so approached protecting that there’s a prima facie case as in opposition to the respondent herein,” the plea stated.

The plea contended that the top courtroom has carried out a roving inquiry and a mini-trial by means of intricately analyzing the proof on report which is opposite to the regulation laid down by means of this courtroom.

“The top courtroom perused the costs within the fee sheet in isolation and made observations that might affect the trial erring to note that regulations coping with nationwide safety and nationwide integrity will have to be interpreted and carried out with a strict yardstick as in comparison to different regulations.

“That the top courtroom went into such a lot research intimately in an effort to grant bail to the respondent herein and thus held that no prima facie case is made out,” the NIA stated.

The plea contended that Teltumbde is a senior and lively member of CPI (Maoist) running in city spaces.

“The respondent herein was once instrumental in establishing fact-finding missions at the instructions of CPI(M) which had allotted Rs 10,00,000 for the aim of his world marketing campaign and visits in furtherance of CPI(M) time table and is the brother of Milind Teltumbde who was once eradicated in an come across with the safety forces who was once deeply impressed by means of the respondent herein,” the plea stated.

Teltumbde has been lodged on the Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai since his arrest within the case in April 2020.

The activist had moved the top courtroom closing 12 months after a different courtroom refused to grant him bail.

He had claimed that he was once neither provide at December 31, 2017, Elgar Parishad match held in Pune town, nor had made any provocative speech.

The NIA’s declare is that Teltumbde was once probably the most major conveners of the Elgar Parishad and he was once an lively member of a number of frontal organisations of the CPI (Maoist).

NEW DELHI: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) Tuesday moved the Splendid Courtroom in opposition to the bail granted to scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlinks case.

The Bombay Prime Courtroom on November 18 granted bail to Teltumbde noting that prima facie the one case made out in opposition to him pertains to alleged affiliation with a fear workforce and toughen given to it, for which the utmost punishment is 10 years in prison.

Teltumbde, 73, is the 3rd accused of the full 16 arrested within the case to be launched on bail.

Poet Varavara Rao is lately out on bail on well being grounds, and attorney Sudha Bharadwaj is out on common bail.

Alleging that the top courtroom has carried out a roving inquiry and a mini-trial, the NIA in its plea prior to the highest courtroom stated the top courtroom perused the costs within the fee sheet in isolation and made observations that might affect the trial.

“The observations of the top courtroom that no prima facie case is made out in opposition to the respondent herein is opposite to the observations made by means of this courtroom with regards to the exact same respondent in search of pre-arrest bail… The stated order additionally fails to keep in mind the cumulative impact of all of the previous lawsuits moved by means of the prevailing respondent within the rapid case the place all reliefs were denied by means of every discussion board so approached protecting that there’s a prima facie case as in opposition to the respondent herein,” the plea stated.

The plea contended that the top courtroom has carried out a roving inquiry and a mini-trial by means of intricately analyzing the proof on report which is opposite to the regulation laid down by means of this courtroom.

“The top courtroom perused the costs within the fee sheet in isolation and made observations that might affect the trial erring to note that regulations coping with nationwide safety and nationwide integrity will have to be interpreted and carried out with a strict yardstick as in comparison to different regulations.

“That the top courtroom went into such a lot research intimately in an effort to grant bail to the respondent herein and thus held that no prima facie case is made out,” the NIA stated.

The plea contended that Teltumbde is a senior and lively member of CPI (Maoist) running in city spaces.

“The respondent herein was once instrumental in establishing fact-finding missions at the instructions of CPI(M) which had allotted Rs 10,00,000 for the aim of his world marketing campaign and visits in furtherance of CPI(M) time table and is the brother of Milind Teltumbde who was once eradicated in an come across with the safety forces who was once deeply impressed by means of the respondent herein,” the plea stated.

Teltumbde has been lodged on the Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai since his arrest within the case in April 2020.

The activist had moved the top courtroom closing 12 months after a different courtroom refused to grant him bail.

He had claimed that he was once neither provide at December 31, 2017, Elgar Parishad match held in Pune town, nor had made any provocative speech.

The NIA’s declare is that Teltumbde was once probably the most major conveners of the Elgar Parishad and he was once an lively member of a number of frontal organisations of the CPI (Maoist).