Elgar Parishad Case: After Opposing Bail for Years, NIA Now Says it Doesn't Need Custody of Shoma Sen
Sukanya Shantha | 18 March 2024 | The Wire
Mumbai: After keeping Shoma Sen, a former professor at Nagpur University, in prison for close to six years, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has now stated that they no longer need her custody. The agency, having completed investigation in the Elgar Parishad case, has already filed the chargesheet. But all along, and as recently as in December 2023, the agency had vehemently opposed her bail application both in the lower court and the Supreme Court.
Additional Solicitor General K.M. Nataraj, representing the NIA, made the statement after a bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Augustine George Masih questioned him on whether Sen’s continued detention was necessary. Nataraj’s statement was surprising given the fact that he, on the agency’s instruction, was opposing Sen’s application all along…