NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail for two weeks to accused Mahesh Raut in Elgar Parishad case to attend ceremonies related to the last rites of his grandmother who passed away recently.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and S V N Bhatti directed that Raut be released from prison on June 26 and will remain on bail till July 10. The court left it for the trial court to pass an order on bail conditions to be imposed on him .
Raut had been granted regular bail by the Bombay High Court last year but the order was stayed by the apex court when the National Investigation Agency (NIA) challenged the HC order.Raut was arrested in June 2018 and has been in custody since.
The high court granted him bail in September 2023 after observing that merely because a co-accused has claimed that he handed over money to Raut, it would not make him a recipient of the same as there was nothing else to corroborate the said claim. His bail plea was earlier rejected by trial court.
The Elgar Parishad case pertains to a conclave held in Pune on Dec 31, 2017, which according to the Pune police was funded by Maoists.
