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| Milind Ekbote |
3/1/2018
PUNE: The Mumbai High Court rejected an anticipatory bail plea filed by Hindutva leader
Milind Ekbote, a key accused charged with inciting the casteist riots of
January 1 in Pune.
With this, the stage is set for the possible of arrest of
Ekbote - who heads the Hindu Ekta Manch - and has been booked under three
different cases pertaining to the Koregaon-Bhima incident in which a youth was
killed, besides many injured and widespread damage to public and private
properties worth around Rs 9 crore.
A division bench of Justice S. C. Dharmadhikari and Justice
Bharati H. Dangre, while rejecting Ekbote's contentions challenging a Pune
Sessions Court order declining his anticipatory plea, ruled that the lower
court's observations in the matter could not be ignored.
Citing the Pune court, dismissing his anticipatory bail plea
on January 22, observed that he was an accused in a "grave matter with
very serious charges" against him, the bench said: "We cannot ignore
the averments made by the (Pune) trial court against the appellant. Therefore
we find no merit in this plea and are inclined to reject it."
Challenging the sessions court's order rejecting his
pre-arrest bail plea, Ekbote argued that police had erred in lodging the
charges against him since he was not present at the site of the violence in
Koregaon-Bhima. Accordingly, he contended there was no question of him inciting
any violence or committing any acts of atrocities, as alleged by police.
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