Observing that unlawful activities of Naxalites need to be exposed, sternly dealt with and prevented, the Bombay high court refused to grant anticipatory bail to a former zilla parishad president and NCP leader from Gadchiroli accused of providing explosives to Naxal groups.
Bandopant Mallelwar, former ZP president and local NCP leader from Gadchiroli, and his brother Narendra were accused of supplying arms to Naxalites with five others, including a government doctor of state’s Gadchiroli district. Bandopant and others were booked under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Explosives Act and IPC. “Considering that prima facie there is ground to believe involvement of Bandopant and the fact that the investigation is at the preliminary stage, I am not prepared to take a different view from that of the sessions court rejecting his anticipatory bail,” Justice A.P. Bhangale observed on July 31.