NIA seeks to cancel bail of activists for speaking to press
MUMBAI, May 16 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday moved a plea before a special court seeking cancellation of bail granted to activists Sudha Bharadwaj and P Varavara Rao, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon violence case, claiming that they have violated bail conditions by attending a press meet at Mumbai Press Club on January 19 this year.
The special NIA court has asked Bharadwaj and Rao to respond to the plea and posted it for further hearing on May 22.
Bharadwaj was granted bail on technical grounds in 2021, while Rao walked out of jail a year later. At the time of granting bail, the courts had imposed a slew of conditions on them, including not to speak to the media about the case.
The NIA has claimed that the duo attended a program at Mumbai Press Club on January 19 this year which was in breach of the bail conditions and on that ground has sought cancellation of their bail.
Meanwhile, the special court on Friday allowed Rona Wilson, another accused in the case, to travel to Kerala from May 16 to May 31 to meet his 80-year-old mother and family members while undergoing cancer treatment, holding that the request was justified on "humanitarian ground".
Wilson, who was granted bail by the Bombay High Court in January 2025 after spending more than six years in custody, told the court he had been diagnosed with cutaneous melanoma in December 2025 and was undergoing immunotherapy in Mumbai....
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