Bhima Koregaon case: SC extends house arrest of all 5 activists

September 17, 2018 13:03

Supreme Court extends house arrest of all five activists till September 19 which is when the next hearing will be held.

Abhishek M Singhvi, appearing for many of the petitioners, submits to SC that out of the 25 cases against accused, Varavara Rao, he was acquitted in all cases. Vernon Gonsalves, was acquitted in 17 cases out of a total of 18 cases and Arun Ferreira was acquitted in all 11 cases.

Singhvi submits to the SC that no accused was present in the programme of Yalgar Parishad and even the FIR does not have names of any of the five accused persons in the case.

Image: Activist Varavara Rao at his home in Hyderabad. File pic.

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