PUNE: Defence legal professional Rohan Nahar on Monday stated the activists arrested within the Elgar Parishad case can't be tried for terrorist acts under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) as a result of no blast or firing on mob had taken position within the Koregaon Bhima riots on January 1, 2018, a day after the Parishad was once organised at Shaniwarwada.
Arguing for regular bail pleas of activists P Varavara Rao and Rona Wilson, Nahar submitted prior to a special court docket that Section 15 of the UAPA (terrorist act) was once no longer applicable to the case because the chargesheet of the Pune police was once silent on the alleged terrorist acts committed by the activists.
It is the police’s case that the Maoists supported and funded the Elgar Parishad in Pune on December 31, 2017, as part of a larger conspiracy to create social unrest and overthrow the government. According to the police, the alleged provocative speeches and inflammatory statements on the Parishad contributed to the caste clashes at Koregaon Bhima.
Nahar argued that the prosecution had no longer produced evidence prior to the court docket to turn that an act of terrorism was once planned on the Parishad. The UAPA provisions had been interlinked, but there was once nothing on document to turn that the activists had been preparators of the terrorist act. They were falsely implicated within the case to offer protection to the real accused, he stated.
The legal professional stated the prosecution alleged that Anuradha Gandhi Memorial Trust was once funding actions of the CPI (Maoist), but the chargesheet filed by the police revealed that it had no longer searched its premises, nor had it completed investigations in this regard. He also stated Wilson and Rao had no longer participated within the Parishad.
City realtor Tushar Damgude had filed an FIR with the Vishrambaug police on January 8, 2018. Quoting one of the FIRs filed by eyewitness Anita Salve with the Pimpri police, the defence legal professional relied on the concluding paragraph to hold that right wing activists Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide had been chargeable for the riots and his shoppers had nothing to do with the incident.
The defence legal professional termed the digital and other evidence as dubious as there was once nothing on document to turn that it was once despatched by one individual to a particular person as its contents communicate of past incidents to be had in public domain.
The legal professional stated a seized letter mentioned the title of “Comrade Prakash Ambedkar”, but the police had no longer acted against him for the reasons very best identified to them. He pleaded to liberate his shoppers on bail as there was once no tangible evidence against them. Public prosecutor Ujjwala Pawar interrupted Nahar and stated the police had no longer named Ambedkar.
Earlier, Wilson, Rao, Mahesh Raut, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Surendra Gadling, Sudhir Dhawale, Shoma Sen and Sudha Bharadwaj had been produced prior to the court docket.
Special pass judgement on Ok D Vadane would listen Raut’s bail plea on March 29.
Arguing for regular bail pleas of activists P Varavara Rao and Rona Wilson, Nahar submitted prior to a special court docket that Section 15 of the UAPA (terrorist act) was once no longer applicable to the case because the chargesheet of the Pune police was once silent on the alleged terrorist acts committed by the activists.
It is the police’s case that the Maoists supported and funded the Elgar Parishad in Pune on December 31, 2017, as part of a larger conspiracy to create social unrest and overthrow the government. According to the police, the alleged provocative speeches and inflammatory statements on the Parishad contributed to the caste clashes at Koregaon Bhima.
Nahar argued that the prosecution had no longer produced evidence prior to the court docket to turn that an act of terrorism was once planned on the Parishad. The UAPA provisions had been interlinked, but there was once nothing on document to turn that the activists had been preparators of the terrorist act. They were falsely implicated within the case to offer protection to the real accused, he stated.
The legal professional stated the prosecution alleged that Anuradha Gandhi Memorial Trust was once funding actions of the CPI (Maoist), but the chargesheet filed by the police revealed that it had no longer searched its premises, nor had it completed investigations in this regard. He also stated Wilson and Rao had no longer participated within the Parishad.
City realtor Tushar Damgude had filed an FIR with the Vishrambaug police on January 8, 2018. Quoting one of the FIRs filed by eyewitness Anita Salve with the Pimpri police, the defence legal professional relied on the concluding paragraph to hold that right wing activists Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide had been chargeable for the riots and his shoppers had nothing to do with the incident.
The defence legal professional termed the digital and other evidence as dubious as there was once nothing on document to turn that it was once despatched by one individual to a particular person as its contents communicate of past incidents to be had in public domain.
The legal professional stated a seized letter mentioned the title of “Comrade Prakash Ambedkar”, but the police had no longer acted against him for the reasons very best identified to them. He pleaded to liberate his shoppers on bail as there was once no tangible evidence against them. Public prosecutor Ujjwala Pawar interrupted Nahar and stated the police had no longer named Ambedkar.
Earlier, Wilson, Rao, Mahesh Raut, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Surendra Gadling, Sudhir Dhawale, Shoma Sen and Sudha Bharadwaj had been produced prior to the court docket.
Special pass judgement on Ok D Vadane would listen Raut’s bail plea on March 29.
'No terror acts' against activists in Elgar case
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