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Mumbai: The Supreme Court on Wednesday (November 19) granted cultural activist Jyoti Jagtap interim bail in the Elgar Parishad case in which she has spent five years and six months in jail.

Her interim bail will continue until the next hearing, scheduled for February 2026. Her long-drawn struggle to secure regular bail has involved multiple petitions before various benches from the trial court up to the apex court.

Jagtap, one of the three women to be arrested in the case and the only one to still be behind bars, was granted interim relief by the division bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma. The other two – lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj and retired professor Shoma........

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