MUMBAI: The Bombay HC on Friday directed the Maharashtra government to file a reply on a plea by activist Vernon Gonsalves challenging his arrest in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case. A bench of justices B P Dharmadhikari and Revati Mohite-Dere directed the state to file its reply by April 9.
Gonsalves, arrested in October last year and currently in judicial custody, in his plea filed this year argued his custody was illegal since the prosecution had failed to follow due procedure while seeking extension of time for filing the chargesheet against him and others in the case. Gonsalves argued his custody was illegal since the prosecution had failed to follow due procedure.
