The Bombay High Court on Wednesday rejected the assessment plea of three accused within the Bhima Koregaon violence — Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves. A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar, whereas listening to a plea filed by Surendra Gadling, Varavara Rao, Sudhir Dhawale, Shoma Sen, Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut, Vernon Gonsalves, and Arun Ferreira, said that there was no factual error within the December 2021 judgment as claimed by the three accused whereas denying them default bail.
“The applications of bail were not placed before the court. Hence we cannot agree that there was factual error. No case of exercising jursidiction is made out. We clarify that observations in previous judgement are based on documents placed before us. The application stands rejected,” the court docket dominated, in accordance with Bar and Bench.
In the current plea filed by advocate R Satyanarayanan, they submitted that if the factual error was not rectified it can result in “gross miscarriage of justice”.
According to the court docket, three accused weren’t granted bail as they didn’t apply for it inside the stipulated interval of 60 days after their arrest and earlier than the submitting of cost sheet. That was required to be corrected because the three accused couldn’t avail the order which had been upheld by the Supreme Court.
As many as 16 activists had been slapped with sedition fees and booked beneath a number of sections of the Unlawful Activities and Prevention Act (UAPA) by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for his or her alleged roles within the Bhima Koregaon violence case of 2018. The NIA had accused them of hatching a plot to overthrow the federal government.
Rao was granted bail on medical grounds until March 3. Only Bharadwaj has been granted bail up to now, whereas the remaining are nonetheless in jail. One of these arrested, Father Stan Swamy, handed away final 12 months forward of his bail listening to.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”