The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Delhi-based researcher Rona Wilson and activist Sudhir Dhawale, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case in 2018, stating the trial in the case was yet to start. The arrest of Wilson figures in the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report which claims that UN human rights experts have expressed concern that the charges against him and other activists in the case are "being used to silence human rights defenders who promote and protect the rights of India’s Dalit, indigenous, and tribal communities."
Granting the bail against a surety of Rs one lakh each, a division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata noted that the two had spent more than six years in jail as under-trial prisoners.
Wilson and Dhawale were directed by the High Court to appear before the special NIA court during the trial, surrender their passports, and not leave the city until the trial is over.
"They have been in jail since 2018. Even the charges in the case are yet to be framed. The prosecution has cited over 300 witnesses, and thus there is no possibility of the trial to conclude in the near future," the court said.
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