NIA Court Imposes Extra Bail Terms on Gonsalves & Ferreira: What Does This Mean?

01/08/2023

The Quint / by The Quint

The Supreme Court had granted bail to Bhima Koregaon accused Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira on 28 July.
Even though the Supreme Court granted bail to Bhima Koregaon accused Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira on Friday, 28 July, the two might not walk out of prison just yet.
Why the delay? A special NIA court, according to India Today, has imposed additional bail conditions on them.
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Bhima Koregaon accused asked to share phone location while on bail. Is this constitutional?

01/08/2023

Scroll.in / by Vineet Bhalla

A Supreme Court bench is currently adjudicating the constitutionality of such a bail condition.
… The two-judge bench of the court comprising Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sudhanshu Dhulia on Friday imposed unusually restrictive bail conditions on Ferreira and Gonsalves. One of them is the requirement of keeping “the location status of their mobile phones active, 24 hours a day” and “pair[ing]” their phones with those of the investigating officer of the National Investigation Agency to enable the officer to identify Ferreira’s and Gonsalves’ exact location “at any given time”.
While this may sound like an uncommon bail condition, it has featured in three previous orders of the Supreme Court over the last nine months. In all four instances, Justice Bose was part of the bench that passed the order. The Delhi High Court has passed over 800 bail orders with this condition.
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Release of Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira may get delayed as court rejects cash bail plea

31/07/2023

The Telegraph / by pti

The court imposed additional conditions for their bail, directing the accused to furnish a PR (personal recognisance) bond of Rs 50,000 each.
The release of activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, could get delayed as a special NIA court here on Monday rejected their pleas for temporary cash bail.
The court imposed additional conditions for their bail, directing the accused to furnish a PR (personal recognisance) bond of Rs 50,000 each and desist from speaking to the media about the case.
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After securing Supreme Court bail, activists Gonsalves, Ferreira likely to walk out of jail next week

28/07/2023

The Telegraph / by pti

The apex court, while giving relief, asked them not to leave Maharashtra and surrender their passports to the police.
Activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, are likely to walk out of jail only next week after securing bail from the Supreme Court on Friday as certain formalities are to be completed before they are released, defence lawyers said here.
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Also read:
● Supreme Court grants bail to Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, with tethers (The Leaflet / July 28, 2023)