Navlakha, arrested on August 28, 2018, moved the court for bail more than 6 months ago and in his plea has also cited health issues while seeking relief.
Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit Priest and tribal rights activist who was an accused in the Elgar Parishad case passed away on July 5 after while waiting for bail on medical grounds.
Fifteen security personnel of the Quick Response Team (QRT) and one civilian were killed in an explosion on May 1, 2019 in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region
When Babu's plea came up before a bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and VG Bisht, the bench on Wednesday recused itself from hearing it without citing any reason.
A two-judge bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday recused itself from hearing the bail plea of Delhi University's associate professor Hany Babu and the plea of Gautam Navlakha, both accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, without citing any reason.
Without citing any reason, the judges said they can't hear Babu's bail plea and Navlakha's plea where several requests, including access to a telephone, were made.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case, seeking that he be placed under house arrest instead of judicial custody in Taloja jail.
The HC bench had held at the time that undertrials, detainees, and convicts did not cease to be human beings after incarceration. It had said that refusing Uppuganti's prayer would amount to a breach of her fundamental right to life.
The 2018 Elgar Parishad case accused, Gautam Navlakha, had been seeking to move out of the prison and be kept under house arrest. However, Bombay HC reserved a verdict on the matter.