{"id":303364,"date":"2018-09-28T06:47:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T06:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303364"},"modified":"2018-09-28T06:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T06:47:22","slug":"bhima-koregaon-case-supreme-court-extends-house-arrest-of-activists-by-4-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bhima-koregaon-case-supreme-court-extends-house-arrest-of-activists-by-4-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhima-Koregaon case: Supreme Court extends house arrest of activists by 4 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-permits-reservation-in-promotion-to-sc-st-employees\/supreme-court-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-299685\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on September 28 extended the house arrest of the five activists arrested in connection with Bhima-Koregaon violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court heard the case after a plea was filed by historian Romila Thapar and others against the arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court had also rejected the plea for a SIT probe in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the court said, the house arrest will continue for four weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had reserved the judgment on September 20 after\u00a0counsel\u00a0for both parties, including senior advocates Harish Salve, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, concluded their submissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Chandrachud dissents the majority\u00a0judgement,\u00a0asserted that technicality should not be allowed to override substantive justice. He added that voices of opposition could not be muzzled because it is a dissent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Chandrachud came down heavily on Pune Police and said the conduct of the police was to use media to cast aspersion on the activists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice AM Khanwilkar, while reading the judgment for himself and CJI Dipak Misra said the accused persons cannot select which investigating agencies should investigate the matter. Justice Khanwilkar observed that the investigation officers are allowed to continue with the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The five activists &#8211; Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj\u00a0and\u00a0Gautam Navlakha&#8211; are under house arrest since August 29 after the investigators found incrementing evidence to link them with the caste-based clashes in Pune\u2019s Bhima-Koregaon in January this year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on September 28 extended the house arrest of the five activists arrested in connection with Bhima-Koregaon violence. The court heard the case after a plea was filed by historian Romila Thapar and others against the arrest. The Supreme Court had also rejected the plea for a SIT probe in the case. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5266,4640,255,1078,4639,5265,106,4487,134,4707,4641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303365,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303364\/revisions\/303365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}