The Supreme Court on January 5 extended the stay imposed by the Bombay High Court on the operation of its order granting bail to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A Bench of Justices M. M. Sundresh and S. V. N. Bhatti also directed the top court's Registry to place before Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) plea to decide on tagging the petition with cases of other accused. The Supreme Court said it was not inclined to say anything on the merits of the case.
