The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to Sathyanarayana Rani, a 72-year-old alleged Naxal operative, who’s accused within the 2019 Gadchiroli blast case.
Fifteen safety personnel of the Quick Response Team (QRT) and one civilian have been killed in an explosion on May 1, 2019 in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha area.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and V G Bisht granted bail to Sathyanarayana. An in depth order with causes and situations imposed could be made out there later.
Sathyanarayana is at present lodged within the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai. His late spouse Niramala Uppuganti was additionally named as an accused within the case. The duo was arrested in 2019. Uppuganti died of most cancers in April this yr.
Sathyanarayana, in his bail plea filed by way of advocates Yug Chaudhry and Payoshi Roy, stated that there was no proof in opposition to him and that he has spent nearly three years in jail as an undertrial and deserved to be let loose on bail.
While initially the Gadchiroli police was probing the case, it was later transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The NIA in its charge-sheet had claimed that Rani was part of the conspiracy assembly held almost a yr earlier than the assault and that this assembly was attended by round 300 Naxal members. The assault was allegedly deliberate to avenge the loss of life of 40 individuals by safety personnel in 2018.
The accused within the case have been booked underneath sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and for homicide and felony conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”