The NIA is investigating the violence that occurred at the Bhima Koregaon on the 1st of January, 2018 in which a person died.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday concluded hearing on the bail application of Jyoti Jagtap, accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence case, on the ground that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) required the matter to be taken with another relating to the bail that the agency had moved for co-accused Mahesh Raut.
The NIA is investigating the case of violence in Bhima Koregaon near Pune on 1st January, 2018, in which one was killed. The case pertains to some ‘provocative’ speeches made at a conclave that led to tension near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial in Pune.
A bench of MM Sundresh and Arvind Kumar, considering the regular bail application rejected by the Bombay High Court to Jagtap on the grounds that he could access records of the crime, rejected the same and referred the matter to the registry of the Supreme Court to seek directions from the CJI for hearing together both the applications.
The court was told that NIA’s appeal against the grant of bail to Raut is still ‘pend earlier of the hue that it was last heard last month by a bench of justices, Bela M. Trivedi.
Raut was released on bail in September last year but could not walk out of jail as a stay on the order was passed by the top court and it was extended from time to time.
Picking up the plea of Jagtap, the bench remarked, ‘There should be a common order, and then we will hear We have to decide one way or the other. In any case, we are not inclined to pass an order in I.A. No. 899/2003 for interim bail.’
