India, Oct. 2 -- Civil rights activist Dr Anand Teltumbde, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon violence case, on Wednesday withdrew his plea seeking permission to travel to the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (UK) to attend academic assignments, after the Bombay High Court expressed disinclination to allow the plea.

Referring to the rejection of his discharge application from the Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case by the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in May 2024, the division bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhonsale expressed its apprehension in permitting the activist to travel overseas.

"Now the circumstance is that the discharge application has been rejected. Therefore, there is an appreh...