Supreme Court to listen to bail plea of activist Navlakha right this moment

The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the bail plea of activist Gautam Navlakha within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlink case.
A bench, comprising Justices U U Lalit and Ok M Joseph, had on March 15 requested the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file its response on the bail plea of the activist, and determined to listen to the identical on March 22.
The apex court docket had taken be aware of the submission of Additional Solicitor General S V Raju that NIA be granted extra time to file its response to the plea.

The activist had moved the highest court docket on February 19 towards the Bombay High Court order of February 8 dismissing his bail plea.

Navlakha has been searching for statutory bail underneath the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) on the bottom that the NIA didn’t file the cost sheet inside the stipulated 90-day interval, making him entitled for grant of default bail.