GUWAHATI: Gauhati High Court on Wednesday extended by two months the conditional interim bail of militant DHD-J (Black Widow) chairman Jewel Garlosa and its ‘commander-in-chief’ Niranjan Hojai in connection with two National Investigation Agency (NIA) cases.
A divisional bench of the Court comprising Chief Justice A K Goal and Justice U B Saha extended the conditional interim bail upto April 9 on the NIA cases relating to diversion of public funds for militant activities and abetment to waging of war against the union government.
On August 12 last year the Court had granted interim bail to them in connection with the cases registered under various sections of the IPC, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Arms Act. The division bench comprising of the then chief justice M B Lokur and Justice Hrishikesh Roy had passed the bail order after the NIA and Assam government submitted that they had no objection to the duo being granted bail. (PTI)