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“We Will Not Interfere”: SC Rejects NIA Plea Against Bail To Anand Teltumbde

Anand Teltumbde

After hearing the special leave petition filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the bail granted to Anand Teltumbde by Bombay High Court while dismissing the plea by the NIA.

Though the bench comprising of CJI Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli said it would not interfere with Bombay HC’s decision, the High Court’s observations will not be treated as conclusive final findings at the trials.

The Bombay High Court’s division bench, comprising Justices AS Gadkari and Milind Jadhav, had granted bail to Bhima-Koregaon case accused Anand Teltumbde, while making an observation that prima facie there was no evidence for the offence of terrorist activity against Teltumbde.

During the hearing in SC on Friday, CJI Chandrachud asked the central agency as to what is the role attributable to Teltumbde. 

“What is the specific role to bring UAPA sections into action? The IIT Madras event you alleged is for Dalit mobilisation. Is Dalit mobilisation preparatory act to proscribed activity?” the CJI asked ASG Aishwarya Bhati, representing the NIA. 

Teltumbde played an active role and received funds for carrying out activities of the banned organisation. “Under UAPA, it is not necessary terrorist act is to be carried out. There is preparatory act carried out for proscribed organisation,” ASG Bhati argued.

The NIA, arguing to reject the bail granted to Teltumbde, alleges that he conspired to further the ideology of banned CPI(Maoist) and to overthrow the government. It also cited several documents revealing Teltumbde’s ‘deep involvement’ with CPI(Maoist). 

Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Teltumbde, argued that none of those documents were directly recovered from Teltumbde. The emails purportedly sent by Teltubmde were allegedly recovered from the computer of co-accused Rona Wilson. Sibal also denied any connection between Anand Teltumbde with his brother Milind Teltumbde, and said the former had not met the latter for last 30 years.

 

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Haryana: Suitcase With Body Parts Found, Police Suspect Links With Shraddha Murder

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The body remains recovered from a suitcase at a forest area in Haryana’s Faridabad on Thursday afternoon are suspected to be of the 27-year-old woman from Mumbai, Shraddha Walkar, who was killed by her live-in partner in Delhi.

New Delhi:  The body remains recovered from a suitcase at a forest area in Haryana’s Faridabad on Thursday afternoon are suspected to be of the 27-year-old woman from Mumbai, Shraddha Walkar, who was killed by her live-in partner in Delhi.

Faridabad Police have contacted the Delhi Police following the recovery of the suitcase with body parts in the Surajkund forest area. According to police, the remains were wrapped in a plastic bag and a sack, and clothes and a belt were also recovered near the suitcase.

Prima facie, it appeared that a person was murdered elsewhere and a part of the body was dumped here to avoid identification, Faridabad Police said in a statement.

Faridabad police have shared the information with Delhi police, and on the basis of which, a team of Mehrauli police of South Delhi, investigating the horrific Shraddha murder case, also reached the spot and joined the investigation.

Delhi police officials suspect that the body remains recovered from the suitcase could be linked with the Shraddha Walker murder case.

The body parts (including torso) found in the suitcase appears to be months old, and it is not clear if they were of a man or woman, said sources.

They said that the body remains have been sent for post-mortem examination, and things will become clear once the post-mortem report is received.
“Faridabad police officials have also said that they will keep samples aside, in case Delhi police would want to go for a DNA test,” official sources told Sources.

Aaftab Amin Poonawalla, accused in the macabre Shraddha Walkar murder case, is currently in police custody and is undergoing Perceptual Ability Test (PAT) – a psychological analysis test.

Aaftab is accused of strangling Shraddha, his live-in partner, to death and chopping her body into 35 pieces. He is also alleged to have preserved the chopped body parts in a refrigerator before dumping them in the forests of south Delhi’s Chhatarpur.

Aaftab and Shraddha met on a dating site and moved in together to a rented accommodation in Chhatarpur as the relationship grew.

On receipt of the complaint from Shraddha’s father, Delhi Police registered an FIR on November 10 and arrested the accused later.

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Subsequent interrogation of the accused revealed that Aaftab killed Shraddha on May 18 after which he started researching ways to dispose of the body.

He also borrowed ideas on disposal from popular crime shows on his streaming devices, Delhi Police revealed. He also told police that he read up on human anatomy before chopping his girlfriend’s body.

Police said after browsing on the internet for ways to remove all traces of his crime, Aaftab mopped blood stains from the floor of the couple’s Chhatarpur apartment with some chemicals and also disposed of all stained clothes.

He then shifted the body to the bathroom and bought a refrigerator where he hoarded the chopped body parts, police further informed.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by HW News staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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