Justices UU Lalit, Indira Banerjee and KM Joseph to hear plea by Gautam Navlakha, accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence, against the rejection of his plea for default bail by Bombay High Court #SupremeCourt #BhimaKoregaon
Senior Advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan asks if the matter will be taken up before the part heard matter today
Bench discusses among themselves
Justice Lalit: We will come at 2:30. Since it's bail matter we will take it up immediately as soon as we reassemble post lunch.
ASG SV Raju: it's a default bail matter and not even a regular bail. This application is on a hyper-technical ground.
Justice Lalit: at your instance we adjourned from March 15 then to March 22 and therefater. It becomes extremely difficult for us to manage the board
Senior Adv Kapil Sibal: We oppose this adjournment. We wish to argue.
ASG for NIA Says he has to appear in another case in Bombay HC
@KapilSibal : Please hear us and then give NIA time to reply
Justice Lalit: Either we hear this matter today or later. It cannot be segregated.
Sibal: Please have it as Item 1 tomorrow and hear it
Justice Lalit: We will list this as first item on board tomorrow at 10.30. Tomorrow will be the hearing day so whatever has to happen will happen tomorrow. Please make yourself available (to ASG).
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The speakers for the evening are newly designated senior advocates Deepika Marwah, Garima Prashad, Neelima Tripathi, Nitya Ramakrishnan, Suruchi Aggarwal and Malvika Trivedi.
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