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Koregaon-Bhima case: SC dismisses review plea for release of activists

<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court has  dismissed a plea seeking a review of the September 28 majority verdict by which the apex court had refused immediate release of five rights activists held in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">    </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud yesterday  dismissed the plea filed by historian Romila Thapar  .</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">On September 28, the court rejected a plea for immediate release of the five rights activists arrested by the Maharashtra police  and said  they will remain under house arrest for four more weeks.By a majority verdict of 2:1, it had also refused to appoint an SIT to probe their arrest.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The activists were arrested in connection with an FIR filed following a conclave – 'Elgaar Parishad' – held on December 31 last year that had allegedly triggered violence later at Koregaon-Bhima village in Maharashtra.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> They were put under house arrest on August 29.</span><br />

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