The Supreme Court stated on Tuesday that success against Naxalites could not be based solely on arrests and that there must be sufficient courts and infrastructure for the prompt trial of the arrested ultras, at a time when Home Minister Amit Shah has vowed to destroy Left-wing extremism by the end of March.
In June 2019, Kailash Ramchandani was taken into custody for signaling Naxalites to set off an IED explosion that murdered fifteen police officers in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra.
Additionally, he was charged with providing the extremists with materials for IEDs and walkie-talkies through a tiny business that served as a front.
Senior attorney Trideep Pais informed the Supreme Court that the prosecution had identified 146 witnesses, only one of whom had been questioned in the previous three months, and that other cases were pending before the same special judge hearing Ramchandani's case. The accused, according to Pais, had been detained for six and a half years and had no criminal history. He begged for bail.
Aishwarya Bhati, an additional solicitor general, informed a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi that the accused's signal set off the explosion, and his hands were red with the blood of fifteen police officers. "Your success story against Left-wing extremism cannot be based solely on arrests," the bench declared.
The government must establish special courts to try cases of this kind in order to ensure a prompt trial. The trial won't be finished anytime soon because there are other cases continuing before the same trial judge and the prosecution has called numerous witnesses.
However, the judges exercised caution by only giving the accused temporary bail, subject to the requirement that he be under police surveillance at all times.
It requested that he return to the local police station once a week and stated that "the interim bail would be liable to be cancelled if he attempts to get in touch with his associates among Naxalites."
