Purohit had approached the apex court against the high court's October 20 order which had dismissed his petition against the decision of the trial court allowing NIA take him from the judicial custody to interrogate him.
The Supreme Court today stayed for three more weeks the Bombay High Court order allowing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to interrogate the 2008 Malegaon blast accused Lt Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit and Sudhakar Dhar Dwivedi in its custody.
Purohit had approached the apex court against the high court's October 20 order which had dismissed his petition against the decision of the trial court allowing NIA take him from the judicial custody to interrogate him.
However, the high court had stayed its order for eight weeks till December 20 to enable him to seek redressal before the apex court.
A bench comprising Justice HL Dattu and Justice CK Prasad sought responses from NIA, the Centre and Maharashtra government on the petition filed by Purohit challenging the High Court order which had upheld the order of the MCOCA court.
The court posted the matter for further hearing on January 4 after advocate UU Lalit and Neela Gokhale, appearing for Purohit, submitted the order allowing custodial interrogation was wrong as he was sent to judicial custody after the probe in the case was complete.
The bench also issued notices to NIA and others on Purohit's seeking bail in the case.
Another accused in the case, Sudhakar Dhar Dwivedi, also challenged the order of the High Court and the trial court allowing NIA to take him from judicial custody for his custodial interrogation.
Dwivedi's case was argued by UR Lalit and Manoj Prasad and they also took the same ground as taken by Purohit to assail the orders of the High Court and the trial court.
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