NEW DELHI, March 3 -- The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Wednesday the bail plea of the New Delhi-based journalist-turned leftist human rights activist Gautam Navlakha (65) in Maharashtra Police custody since last April in the alleged Bhima Koregaon violence case in January 2018 and for alleged secret Maoist conspiracy to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
His appeal against the Bombay High Court order on February 8 dismissing his bail plea will come up before a 3-judge Bench of Justices U U Lalit, Indira Banerjee and K M Joseph. The high court had said that it sees "no reason to interfere with a special court's order which earlier rejected his bail plea."
The police charge on Navlakha and other activists is that they allegedly...