The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Thursday sought to dismiss a plea by academician and Dalit rights activist Anand Teltumbde, an accused within the Elgaar Parishad case, who sought permission to journey overseas for tutorial functions in April and Might, 2025.
By way of an affidavit in reply to the plea, the central probe company apprehended that Teltumbde may abscond and search shelter in international international locations and keep away from trial within the case.
The bench of Justices Ajey S Gadkari and Milind N Jadhav of HC, had in November, 2022 granted Teltumbde bail and subsequently the Supreme Court docket had upheld the HC order. As he was requested to not go away the jurisdiction of a particular NIA court docket in Mumbai and was directed to deposit his passport, he approached the HC to switch his journey restrictions.
By way of his software, Teltumbde sought permission to journey overseas to ship lectures, attending seminars at numerous universities together with College of Amsterdam, Leiden Institute for Asia Research, Leiden College, Netherlands, Nottingham Trent College in the UK (UK), amongst others. He has additionally obtained invites by the College of Oxford and two different varsities within the UK. Nonetheless, The NIA, by way of an affidavit filed by its Superintendent of Police in Mumbai, IPS officer Pravin Ingawale, acknowledged there was no necessity for him to ship lectures in particular person and alternatively the identical could be executed nearly and that the hyperlink to those be shared with the NIA in order that his actions could be monitored.
“Additional, for delivering alleged lectures in particular person on the stated international universities by applicant is strongly opposed by the NIA on the bottom of probability of the applicant absconding and thereby allegedly taking shelter within the stated international locations to keep away from the judicial course of and trial of this case, as effectively applicant furthering the prison and illegal (actions) of CPI (Maoist) in India,” the NIA acknowledged.
The NIA additional claimed that “a number of the wished charge-sheeted accused of NIA and different Central regulation enforcement businesses have absconded and sought asylum in international international locations”.
“Therefore, there exists a authorized hurdle in getting again the accused for the prosecution and trial of these instances. Within the current case, the probability of the applicant absconding and taking asylum in stated international international locations can’t be dominated out from the actual fact of applicant being an energetic and senior member of the CPI (Maoist), a banned organisation,” the affidavit learn.
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On Thursday, a bench of Justices Ajey S Gadkari and Kamal R Khata requested HC registry to confirm Teltumbde’s plea and place it earlier than an applicable bench.
