Activist Gautam Navlakha given 4 weeks protection from arrest by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court questioned why the state had not interrogated Gautam Navlakha, charged in the Koregaon Bhima case, for over a year when it objected his protection.

Human rights activist Gautam Navlakha at his residence after he was arrested by the Pune police | PTI

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday extended by four weeks the interim protection from arrest granted to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha in the Koregaon Bhima violence case.

However, a bench of justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta asked Navlakha to approach the concerned court to seek pre-arrest bail in the case.

When the counsel, appearing for Maharashtra government, objected to the grant of further interim protection to Navlakha, the bench questioned the state as to why they had not interrogated him for over a year.