Bhima Koregaon case: Activist Jyoti Jagtap gets interim bail from Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to activist Jyoti Jagtap, one of the 16 persons accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case, Bar and Bench reported.
Jagtap’s counsel told a bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma that she had been in custody for over five years, after which she was granted interim bail.
Jagtap, who is a member of cultural organisation Kabir Kala Manch, has been in prison since September 8, 2020.
The National Investigation Agency has alleged that the organisation, which was formed after the 2002 Gujarat riots, was a frontal organisation of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). However, Jagtap’s lawyer has previously argued before the Bombay High Court that not everyone who was a member of the frontal organisation was a part of the main organisation.
In 2022, the Bombay High Court had rejected a bail application filed by Jagtap observing that the case filed against her by the National Investigation Agency was prima facie true.
The Bhima Koregaon case
The case is related to the violence that broke out in Bhima Koregaon village near Pune on January 1, 2018, a day after the Elgar Parishad conclave was organised to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon.
One person died in the violence and several others were injured.
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