NIA Files Application In Pune Special Court To Seek Transfer Of Bhima-Koregaon Violence Case

Days after Centre transferred the Bhima-Koregaon violence case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), the anti-terror probe agency on Thursday (30 January) moved a Special Court seeking transfer of the case to a Special NIA Court in Mumbai.

The NIA submitted its plea on Wednesday (29 January), five days after the Centre had transferred the investigations into the Elgar Parishad and the Koregaon-Bhima case from Pune Police to the agency, reports Outlook.

The Pune Special Court Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) S R Navander has posted the NIA plea for hearing on 3 February.

One of the defence lawyers in the case said that the central agency filed the criminal miscellaneous application before ASJ, seeking transfer of all the records and the case proceedings to the special NIA court in Mumbai, reports Economic Times.

The development came two days after a three-member NIA team visited the Pune Police and sought the transfer of all records, papers and the case proceedings.

Declining its request, the Pune Police said they would hand over the case to the NIA only after getting written orders from Maharashtra Director General of Police.

The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has said it will take a final decision in a couple of days on a letter received from the Centre vis-a-vis the transfer of the case from the Pune Police to the NIA.