Human rights activist Gautam Navlakha at his New Delhi residence after he was arrested by the Pune police on T... Read More

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Tuesday directed Maharashtra police not to take activist Gautam Navlakha , arrested on terror charges, out of Delhi till Wednesday and keep him under house arrest till further orders.

“The petitioner shall, in the meanwhile be kept at the same place from where he was picked up with two guards of the Special Cell, Delhi police along with local police that was originally here to arrest the petitioner, outside the house. Barring his lawyers, and the ordinary residents of the house, the petitioner shall not meet any other persons or step out of the premises till further orders,” ordered a bench of Justice S Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel.

Navlakha was presented before a magistrate’s court in Saket Court, which has allowed police to take him away and present him before a local court in Pune.

However, his lawyers filed a habeas corpus seeking his whereabouts in the HC in the afternoon.

The bench listed the matter for hearing in the evening and sought a response from Delhi police. The police told court they had already got transit remand of the accused from a magistrate court.

