Hyderabad: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) seeking to cancel bails of four persons who were arrested on allegations of working overground for the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).A division bench of the Supreme Court said that they did not find any ground to interfere with the orders of Telangana high court, which granted conditional bail to petitioners P Nageswar Rao, T Arogyam, B Mahender and V Umashankar in March 2024.The four were arrested by NIA in 2023 on allegations of supplying explosives, drones, and other equipment to the Maoists for attacking security forces. They were initially arrested by the Cherla police of Bhadradri Kothagudem district, following which NIA took over the investigation.The special court for NIA cases at Nampally dismissed their bail petition in Dec 2023, following which they moved the high court, which granted them conditional bail.Subsequently, the agency approached high court for dismissing their bail. After hearing arguments from both sides, the Supreme Court dismissed NIA’s appeal.
