The Delhi High Court on Monday ended the house arrest of social activist Gautam Navlakha while quashing a local court order granting transit remand to Maharashtra police to transfer him to Pune, said a media report.
A bench of Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel said that the transit remand was given by the local court without compliance of mandatory provisions of the Constitution and Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), reported The Hindu.
Sleuths of Maharashtra police had arrested Navlakha from his South Delhi residence in August.
The Delhi High Court had on September 29 questioned the Maharashtra government over the arrest of Navlakha and said it will examine the legality of the state police's action to arrest him and the transit remand order to take him to a Pune court.
However, after the Supreme Court almost simultaneously heard a petition challenging the arrest of Navlakha and four other activists and ordered that all of them would be kept under house arrest till September 6, the high court said it would pass a direction only after going through the top court's order.
