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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025) granted interim bail to activistic Jyoti Jagtap, who was arrested successful 2020 successful the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A seat of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma passed the bid aft elder advocator Aparna Bhat, appearing for Ms. Jagtap, said she has been successful custody for implicit 5 years. Advocate Karishma Maria besides appeared for Ms. Jagtap.
The High Court had said Ms. Jagtap was an progressive subordinate of the Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) group, which during its signifier play astatine the Elgar Parishad conclave held successful Pune connected December 31, 2017 gave not lone aggressive, but besides highly provocative slogans.
"We are of the considered sentiment that determination are tenable grounds for believing the allegations oregon accusations of the NIA against the appellant (Ms. Jagtap) having conspired, attempted, advocated and abetted the committee of a violent enactment arsenic prima facie true," the High Court had said.
According to the NIA, the KKM is simply a beforehand organisation of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
The High Court had dismissed the entreaty filed by the activist-cum-singer challenging a February 2022 bid of a peculiar tribunal refusing her bail.
The 2017 Elgar Parishad conclave was held astatine Shaniwarwada, an 18th-century palace-fort located successful the bosom of Pune city.
Ms. Jagtap, accused of singing and raising provocative slogans astatine the conclave on with different KKM members, was arrested successful September 2020 and has been lodged successful jailhouse since then.
According to the investigators, provocative speeches that were allegedly made astatine the conclave triggered unit astatine Koregaon-Bhima connected the outskirts of Pune connected January 1, 2018.
