Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Nagpur University's former professor Shoma Sen in Elgar-Parishad case. A bench comprising Justices Aniruddha Bose and Augustine George Masih ordered her release on bail, subject to conditions deemed appropriate by the special court.
The top court allowed bail on certain conditions including she shall not leave state of Maharashtra without permission of the special court, surrender her passport, inform NIA about her residence, inform NIA officer about her mobile number and maintain that number remains active and charged.
The court mandated that the GPS on her mobile must remain active and her phone must be paired with that of the NIA officer to ascertain her location. "During this period, that is the period during which she remains on bail, the appellant shall keep the location status, that is GPS of her mobile phone, active 24 hours a day and her phone shall be paired with that of the investigating officer of the NIA to enable him at any given time to identify the appellant's exact location," the bench said.
Sen, a professor of English literature and a prominent advocate for women's rights, was detained in connection with a case concerning alleged inflammatory speeches delivered during the Elgar Parishad gathering at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017.
The police asserted that these speeches incited violence near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial on the outskirts of the city the following day. The investigation into the matter, which has named over a dozen activists and scholars as suspects, was later transferred to the National Investigation Agency.
(Courtesy:- The Times of India, 5 April 2024)
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