The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Gautam Navlakha, accused in Bhima Koregaon riot case of 2018.

The High Court also granted 3 weeks stay on the order to enable the NIA to appeal against the order to the Supreme Court.

He is the seventh accused to get bail in the Bhima Koregaon case after Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Anand Teltumbde, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira.

Navlakha has been under house arrest at a public library in Mumbai since November 2022.

On November 10, 2022, the top court had allowed Navlakha, who was then lodged in Navi Mumbai’s Taloja prison in connection with the case, to be placed under house arrest owing to his deteriorating health.

Navlakha was arrested in August 2018. He moved the High Court for bail after a special NIA court rejected his bail plea on September 5 last year.