Supreme Court to Bombay High Court: Decide Gautam Navlakha’s plea in 8 weeks

Supreme Court to Bombay High Court: Decide Gautam Navlakha’s plea in 8 weeks

FPJ BureauUpdated: Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 01:15 AM IST
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court asked the Bombay High Court on Tuesday to decide on a plea moved by civil liberties activist Gautam Navlakha, seeking to quash the FIR lodged against him in the 2017 Koregaon-Bhima case, within eight weeks. The top court kept the two appeals of the Maharashtra government — filed against the orders of the Delhi High Court and the Bombay High Court respectively — pending.

A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna said the Bombay High Court would decide on Navlakha’s pending plea expeditiously, preferably within eight weeks. Appearing for the Maharashtra government, advocate Nishant R Katneshwarkar said the Delhi High Court had on October 1, 2018 quashed Navlakha’s transit remand order in a habeas corpus petition filed by the activist.

He said the habeas corpus petition was not maintainable in the high court, when a person was in lawful custody pursuant to the orders of the court. Katneshwarkar further contended that even the transit remand order could not be set aside by the high court in the absence of any express prayer for that in the petition.

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