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Mangaluru: After their prolonged incarceration and subsequent release on bail, the National Investigating Agency is eager to send the rights defenders held in the Elgar Parishad case back to jail.

The agency (NIA) had, last month, moved an application seeking cancellation of the bail of Telugu poet-activist Varavara Rao and lawyer-academic Sudha Bharadwaj. On June 10, Wednesday, the agency moved a fresh application seeking cancellation of the bails of two more activists, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira.

The move was triggered by the ongoing controversy in the Mumbai Press Club where the defendants had informally met a few journalists, an act that the central agency claims violates their bail conditions.

In the fresh set of ‘cancellation of bail’ applications, the agency has once again invoked the........

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