While the National Investigation Agency (NIA) sought a stay on the operation of the bail order so as to appeal before the Supreme Court, the HC refused the request, stating that Babu has been in jail for over five years.
Under fire for alleged cover up of sexual assault allegations against Tehelka Founder-Editor Tarun Tejpal, the magazine's Managing Editor Shoma Chaudhary resigned from her post early Thursday morning.
The mother of the young woman journalist, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Tarun Tejpal, on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Delhi police against an immediate family member of the Tehelka editor alleging "intimidation" over the case.
The senior editor faces allegations of misconduct by a colleague.
The CCTV footage of the area outside the elevator, in which the alleged sexual assault took place, corroborates the victim's narration, said an officer, who is part of the team investigating the footage, on the condition of anonymity.
A government lawyer told the Bombay high court on Friday that though prison inmates can talk to their relatives or lawyers on phone, she was not sure if the facility could be granted to activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
The law permits a person to approach the police or a magistrate to lodge a complaint and get their grievances addressed, the court noted.
Do Uddhav Thackeray, Aditya Thackeray, Sanjay Raut, and Sharad Pawar want the deaths of the Bhima Koregaon accused to be associated with their regime? asks Jyoti Punwani.
Yug Chaudhary, counsel for co-accused Sudha Bahrdwaj, then told the court that the War and Peace that the court had referred to on Wednesday was a collection of essays edited by one Biswajit Roy, and was titled War and Peace in Junglemahal: People, State and Maoists.
