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#BhimaKoregaon: "No interference should be allowed in criminal matters in the garb of PIL", ASG Tushar Mehta.
#BhimaKoregaon: ASG Tushar Mehta concludes; Sr. Harish Salve begins his arguments.
#BhimaKoregaon: One can have any ideology but have to draw a line when it comes to unlawful activities, Harish Salve.
#BhimaKoregaon: I am suggesting the contours where free speech ends and unlawful activity begins, Harish Salve.
#BhimaKoregaon: "If Your Lordships feel they are on the trial of unlawful activity, then investigation should go on", Harish Salve.
#BhimaKoregaon: Their prayer to constitute SIT is a cut copy from template, Harish Salve.
#BhimaKoregaon: SIT is a ruse to create a particular <unclear> for a particular class, Salve.
#BhimaKoregaon: If their prayer is accepted, it would mean we cant trust anybody - police, NIA, CBI, submits Salve.
#BhimaKoregaon: These kind of prayers for SIT uncalled for, Harish Salve concludes.
#BhimaKoregaon: @DrAMSinghvi making rejoinder submissions.
#BhimaKoregaon: The entire object of the proceedings against these accused is to create a subtext of plot to assassinate Prime Minister, @DrAMSinghvi
#BhimaKoregaon: @DrAMSinghvi arguing on three letters used to incriminate the accused.
#BhimaKoregaon: Salve raises question on how the petitioners came to access the letters.

Singhvi says it is on the website of NDTV, Republic.

"This is a serious issue", says Salve.
#BhimaKoregaon: CJI Dipak Misra quells the debate.

"You have it, use it. We will look into it", Misra J.

Singhvi now continuing his submissions.
#BhimaKoregaon: The transit remand application is based entirely on Bhima Koregaon and has no mention of the three letters, @DrAMSinghvi
#BhimaKoregaon: The maosit plot finds no mention in any record produced in court, @DrAMSinghvi
#BhimaKoregaon: Salve interrupts again.

Singhvi objects.

"Interventions that too by an intervenor", says Singhvi.
#BhimaKoregaon: How can a man in jail write a letter, Singhvi asks referring to Prof. Sai Baba.
#BhimaKoregaon: You do one thing, you give us the entire case diary, Dipak Misra to ASG Tushar Mehta.
#BhimaKoregaon: Lot of it (case diary) will be in Marathi, Salve.

"That is ok", CJI Dipak Misra

"Your Lordships have sufficient Marathi Bench strength", @DrAMSinghvi referring to Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud on the Bench.
#BhimaKoregaon: Republic TV given special access to letters, @DrAMSinghvi.

This was followed by a public statement by Sudha Bharadwaj denying it. She then sent a legal notice also to Republic TV, submits Singhvi.
#BhimaKoregaon: Vrinda Grover questions presence of Marathi words in letters written by accused.

Anand Grover says letters by Rona Wilson and Sudha Bharadwaj written in Hindi has words which only Maharashtrians could have written

"That is why I am saying this case is cooked up"
#BhimaKoregaon: Supreme Court reserves verdict, State of Maharashtra has to hand over case diary to the court.

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