Shoma Sen, among the former teachers of Nagpur University, was now summoned in the legal case of Bhima Koregaon violence and got bail from the Supreme Court. The teacher was arrested on June 06, 2018, just five months after the violent street battles in the village of Maharashtra State. Led by the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for supposed links with Maoists, she has been in the jail awaiting trial on custody after her arrest.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) submitted the apex court, as written on March 15 that they were no longer demanding her custody. The panel headed by Justice Aniruddha Bose and Augustine George Masih ordered granting of bail to the woman on Friday. The court considered a range of factors which included the adjournment in filing charge sheets against the ex-mayor, his age, and the health condition. Nevertheless, the judge declared some regulations and warned that any misconduct faced a possible continuance of the arrest.
Categories of restrictions are similar for instance, she is not allowed to possess her passport as a guaranty of her appearance in court. Phone’s location will be linked with the investigating officer from National Investigation Agency, and travel outside Maharashtra is only possible after a special court’s allowance.
This bench stated that its constitutional ramifications about Sen are preliminary in nature and shouldn’t or should not affect the trial which is actually going on. Placed among a total of 16 accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, some of them were granted bail, for example, the ones belonging to Sudha Bharadwaj, Anand Teltumbde, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Varavara Rao, and Gautam Navlakha.
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