Justice Ravindra Bhat on Thursday became the fifth Supreme Court judge to decline to hear activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea for quashing of an FIR lodged against him in the Koregaon-Bhima case.
Navlakha approached the apex court challenging ‘the Bombay High Court’s September 13 verdict which refused to quash the FIR lodged against him in the 2017 case for having alleged Maoist links after noting that there was prima facie substance in the case.
Justice Ravindra Bhat on Thursday became the fifth Supreme Court judge to decline to hear activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea for quashing of an FIR lodged against him in the Koregaon-Bhima case.
Navlakha approached the apex court challenging ‘the Bombay High Court’s September 13 verdict which refused to quash the FIR lodged against him in the 2017 case for having alleged Maoist links after noting that there was prima facie substance in the case.