The Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to allow writer and activist Anand Teltumbde, one of the 16 persons accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case, to travel to Europe to deliver a series of lectures and seminars at universities, Live Law reported.

A division bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhonsale expressed disinclination to allow the travel, noting the National Investigation Agency’s objection over concerns that Teltumbde might abscond.

At the outset of the hearing, Gadkari said: “Either give virtual lectures or don’t go,” Live Law reported.

Teltumdbe’s counsel, Mihir Desai, however, told the court that his client would not just deliver lectures but also conduct seminars.

The judge, however, noted that an NIA court had rejected Teltumbde’s application to b

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