Overview
- A division bench of Justices Ajey S. Gadkari and Ranjitsinha R. Bhonsale told Teltumbde to deliver lectures online or not travel at all.
- Teltumbde withdrew his request to visit Europe and the UK for academic events after the court’s disinclination, with liberty to apply again later.
- The NIA opposed foreign travel, flagging a likelihood of absconding, proposing monitored virtual participation, and alleging links to the banned CPI (Maoist).
- The court noted that a special NIA court had rejected Teltumbde’s discharge application, with his challenge to that decision pending before the High Court.
- His petition cited April–May 2025 invitations from the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Nottingham Trent University, Oxford, Edinburgh and UCL.