The Madras High Court has granted bail to a suspected Maoist, arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), on condition that he should file a sworn affidavit in Tamil, affixing his thumb impression as well as signature, owing faith and allegiance to the Constitution and stating that he does not believe in the Maoist ideology.
Justices P.N. Prakash and A.A. Nakkiran also directed the bail petitioner Suresh Rajan to also execute a bond for ₹25,000 with two sureties, both blood relatives, to the satisfaction of the special court for cases investigated under the NIA Act of 2008 and appear before the special court every day at 10.30 a.m. until further orders.
The Tallakulam police in Madurai had initially booked the case against one Vivek alias Vivekanandan for posting a message on his Facebook account titled “Thozhar Vivek” on August 15, 2020. The message in Tamil read that the Independence that the country obtained in 1947 from the British was a sham and a farce.
