The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to former Nagpur University professor Shoma Sen, who is among those accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, Live Law reported.
On March 15, a bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Augustine George Masih questioned the National Investigation Agency regarding the continued detention of Sen. Following this, the agency told the court that it did not need her custody anymore.
Hearing the case on Friday, the same bench said: “We have seen she is of advanced age and the effect of delaying trial at this stage…in addition to her medical conditions. She should not be denied the privilege of being released on bail.”
The court, however, told Sen not to leave Maharashtra and to surrender her passport, if she has one, with the special court while she is out on bail. She is also required to keep the Global Positioning System, or GPS, feature active on her mobile phone and keep it paired with the device of the investigating officer so that her location is known.
Sen is among 16 academicians, activists and lawyers who were charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for their alleged role in instigating caste violence at Bhima Koregaon near Pune in January 2018. She has been in jail since June 6, 2018.
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