Wilson and Dhawale were directed to submit a surety of Rs 1 lakh each, and appear before the special NIA court for the trial hearing.They shall surrender their passports and not leave the city until the trial is over, the HC said.Rona Wilson was arrested in June 2018 from his home in Delhi.He was described by the probe agencies as one of the top brass of urban Maoists.Dhawale was accused of being an active member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).Apart from Dhawale and Wilson, 14 other activists were arrested in the case.Eight of them — Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Anand Teltumbde, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Shoma Sen, Gautam Navlakha and Mahesh Raut — have been granted bail till now.Mahesh Raut remained in jail as the appeal filed by the NIA against his bail is pending before the Supreme Court.But on Tuesday the special NIA court granted him interim bail for 18 days to enable him to appear for an LLB exam.Stan Swamy, one of the accused, died in 2021 while in prison.The case pertains to provocative speeches allegedly delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017. According to the case, the speeches delivered by the activists allegedly triggered violence at Koregaon-Bhima in Pune district the next day.The Pune police had claimed the conclave was backed by the Maoists.The NIA later took over the probe.
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