SC gives 3 months to frame charges, start prosecution
The Free Press Journal|August 20, 2022
Realising that 12 of 13 accused in the 2017 Elgar Parishad case are languishing in jails without trial since 2018 or 2020, the Supreme Court directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) trial court to frame the charges and hear their discharge pleas within three months.
SC gives 3 months to frame charges, start prosecution

While dealing with a petition from accused Vernon Gonsalves, a bench of Chief Justice-designate Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice Ravindra Bhat rejected Gonsalves' bail since he was also convicted earlier in a 2011 case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Rejecting the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) statement that the delay resulted as four of the 20 accused are yet to be nabbed, the court said these four be declared proclaimed offenders and let the Bhima Koregao case trial begin without any further delay.

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