Activist Shantanu Muluk, one of the key suspect in the ‘toolkit case’ registered by Delhi Police got a 10 day transit anticipatory bail by the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. Nikita Jacobs bail plea will be heard today.
The Delhi police had arrested Shantanu Muluk, Nikita Jacob and Disha Ravi for creating the tooklit for “spreading disaffection against the Indian state.” Special counsel for Delhi Police Hiten Venegaonkar objections on the HC’s authority to grant bail delayed Jacobs’s plea hearing.
Justice Vibha Kankanwadi said, “just to enable the applicant (Muluk) to approach the competent court for seeking appropriate relief, the applicant can be granted relief as prayed.” He was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000.