The Bombay High Court has on January 8, 2025, granted bail to Leftists Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawale in the Bhima Koregaon case of 2018. Both of them were arrested in 2018 following the Bhima Koregaon violence for their involvement in the Elgaar Parishad event.
#Breaking: Bombay High Court grants bail to researcher Rona Wilson and activist Sudhir Dhawale, who were arrested in 2018 for their alleged roles in the Bhima-Koregaon Elgar Parishad case. #BombayHighCourt #BhimaKoregaon #ElgarParishad pic.twitter.com/099guWVoJr
— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) January 8, 2025
Both Wilson and Dhawale have been facing UAPA charges in the Elgaar Parishad case. The Pune Police had recovered an incriminating letter from the residence of Wilson, in which he had allegedly highlighted a plot to assassinate PM Modi in Rajiv Gandhi style.
Wilson, Dhawale and the others were arrested by the Pune Police in a nation-wide crackdown against ‘Urban Naxals’ in August-September 2018 under sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and IPC in the Elgaar Parishad case, alleging that they were part of a larger conspiracy of the banned CPI-Maoist to overthrow the Indian government.
