The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the review petition filed against its judgment in the case relating to the arrest of activists in the Bhima Koregaon case..The Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud held that no case for review of the Court’s judgment of September 28 is made out. The order reads,.“We have perused the Review Petition as well as the grounds in support thereof. In our opinion, no case for review of judgment dated 28th September, 2018 is made out. The review petition is accordingly dismissed.”.The petition was filed seeking a review of the judgment delivered in September which had rejected the prayer for the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations against five activists. The activists had been arrested by the Pune Police in a nationwide crackdown in September this year.. Chhattisgarh Diaries: Meet activist, lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj.A petition seeking a free and fair probe by the SIT to investigate the case was filed before the Supreme Court by five persons including historian Romila Thapar..This petition was disposed of by the Supreme Court with the majority view finding that the crackdown and arrests did not amount to silencing dissent. The dissenting judgment delivered by Justice Chandrachud, however, held that there was a need for an independent SIT to probe the allegations..The accused persons are alleged to have connections with banned outfits like the extremist left-wing group Communist Party of India (Maoist) and are accused of inciting violence in Bhima Koregaon after the Elgaar Parishad event held in January this year..According to the Supreme Court’s judgment, the persons accused were placed under house arrest in their own homes for a period of four weeks. This period lapsed on Friday, October 26 following which the Bail application filed by the accused persons in a Pune Court was rejected..Read the Order here:
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the review petition filed against its judgment in the case relating to the arrest of activists in the Bhima Koregaon case..The Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud held that no case for review of the Court’s judgment of September 28 is made out. The order reads,.“We have perused the Review Petition as well as the grounds in support thereof. In our opinion, no case for review of judgment dated 28th September, 2018 is made out. The review petition is accordingly dismissed.”.The petition was filed seeking a review of the judgment delivered in September which had rejected the prayer for the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations against five activists. The activists had been arrested by the Pune Police in a nationwide crackdown in September this year.. Chhattisgarh Diaries: Meet activist, lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj.A petition seeking a free and fair probe by the SIT to investigate the case was filed before the Supreme Court by five persons including historian Romila Thapar..This petition was disposed of by the Supreme Court with the majority view finding that the crackdown and arrests did not amount to silencing dissent. The dissenting judgment delivered by Justice Chandrachud, however, held that there was a need for an independent SIT to probe the allegations..The accused persons are alleged to have connections with banned outfits like the extremist left-wing group Communist Party of India (Maoist) and are accused of inciting violence in Bhima Koregaon after the Elgaar Parishad event held in January this year..According to the Supreme Court’s judgment, the persons accused were placed under house arrest in their own homes for a period of four weeks. This period lapsed on Friday, October 26 following which the Bail application filed by the accused persons in a Pune Court was rejected..Read the Order here:
