Supreme Court extends Gautam Navlakha's interim protection till October 15

Two-judge SC bench hears case after five judges, including CJI Gogoi, had recused from hearings

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday extended the interim protection from arrest granted to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha till October 15, when it will next hear the matter. Navlakha had been named by the Mumbai police as one of the accused in the Koregaon Bhima violence case.

A two-judge bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta agreed to hear Navlakha’s plea against a September 13 order of the Bombay High Court refusing to quash the First Information Report (FIR) against him. The bench asked the state government to produce certain materials before it in a sealed cover. The