Elgar case: Bombay HC grants bail to ex-DU professor Hany Babu
A division bench comprising Justices AS Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhosale accepted Babu’s bail plea. The detailed order was not yet available.
The HC rejected the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) plea to postpone the bail so that it could file an appeal before the Supreme Court.
Hany Babu had firstly sought bail due to his long-term imprisonment without trial.
His lawyer Yug Mohit Chaudhary also argued that the charges have not been framed yet and the discharge petitions are still pending before the trial court.
The NIA accused Hany Babu of being complicit in propagating Maoist activities and ideology on the instructions of leaders of the banned CPI (Maoist) organisation.
He was arrested in July 2020 for the case and sent to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai.
The case relates to provocative speeches made at the Elgar Parishad meeting held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which police alleged triggered violence near the Koregaon Bhima war memorial on the outskirts of the city the next day.
One person died and many people were injured in the violent incidents.
The case, which named more than a dozen activists and academics as accused, was first investigated by the Pune police and later taken up by the NIA.
