The Supreme Court on Monday granted 4 weeks’ time to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file an affidavit on the appliance of Gautam Navlakha, who’s underneath home arrest within the Bhima Koregaon case, seeking a change of the location of house arrest.

A bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna requested the NIA to file its response and posted the matter for listening to in August.

Navlaka filed an utility looking for to be shifted from the general public library, underneath the management of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Mumbai, the place he’s underneath home arrest, to another place within the metropolis as the general public library wanted to be vacated.

On November 10, the apex court docket in an interim order permitted Navlakha to be positioned underneath home arrest for a interval of 1 month contemplating his well being situation and previous age. Later it prolonged his home arrest.

The high court docket had put plenty of circumstances, together with a deposit of ₹2.4 lakh because the bills to be borne by the state for making accessible police personnel to successfully facilitate inserting him underneath home arrest.

Navlakha had moved the highest court docket requesting that he be positioned underneath home arrest as a substitute of judicial custody in Taloja jail, Maharashtra.

The apex court docket had imposed a number of circumstances on Navlakha together with he shall not use any cell phone, laptop computer, communication gadget or gadget. He shall use the cellphone offered by police personnel on obligation. He will be capable of use his cellphone as soon as a day for 10 minutes within the presence of the police.

NIA had vehemently opposed Navlakha’s plea saying his situation has been improved and there was no have to put him underneath home arrest.

Earlier, the apex court docket had allowed the Superintendent of Taloja jail in Maharashtra to shift jailed activist Navlakha to Mumbai’s Jaslok hospital for a medical checkup and therapy.

It had mentioned, “Receiving medical treatment is a fundamental right of a prisoner.”

70-year-old Navlakha had informed the bench that he has colon most cancers and requires a colonoscopy and in addition a check-up for pores and skin allergy and dental points.

Navlakha had moved the highest court docket difficult the April 26 order of the Bombay High Court, which dismissed his plea for home arrest over apprehensions of lack of ample medical and different fundamental services in Taloja jail close to Mumbai the place he’s at the moment lodged.

The High Court had mentioned, “Navlakha’s apprehensions about the lack of medical aid and inadequate basic facilities at the Taloja prison, were “ill-founded”.”

Navlakha, one of many a number of civil liberties activists within the Bhima Koregaon case, has been booked underneath stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for an alleged conspiracy to topple the federal government.

The probe company arrested him in April 2020.

Earlier, the Supreme Court had granted bail to 82-year-old activist P Varavara Rao within the case.