October 9, 2025
The Court extended his interim bail until November 26. The matter is expected to be heard after the end of the interim bail period.
September 16, 2025
The Supreme Court granted him Interim bail for 6 weeks on Medical grounds (he suffers from Rheumatoid Arthritis).
April 4, 2025
NIA Court grants him interim bail from April 20 to May 16 for preparing, appearing for his II semester LLB exams.
February 6, 2025
Supreme Court adjourns the hearing for a later date. Citing that all the co-accused’s (Surendra Gadling, Jyoti Jagtap, Raut) plea for bail would be heard together now.
September 25, 2024
Bombay High Court ordered Siddharth Law College, Mumbai to allow admission in the college despite his imprisonment.
June 21, 2024
The Supreme Court granted him bail for two weeks (June 26-July 10) for attending the rituals following the death of his grandmother.
September 27, 2023
A division bench of Supreme Court comprising J Aniruddha Bose and Bela Trivedi decided to hear the matter on the next date and extended the stay on the High Court's order without hearing arguments in opposition to the stay. The Supreme Court continued to stay the bail order, Raut’s release was delayed.
September 21, 2023
Bombay High Court finally grants him bail. The bench stated that Prima facie Section 13 (unlawful activities) and 38 (membership of terrorist organisation) of the UAPA are applicable and Section 16 (terrorist act), 17 (funds raised for terrorist act) and 18 (conspiracy) are not made out. It also noted that Raut had already spent over five years in prison without trial, further strengthening his case for bail.
However, the bail order was stayed by the Court for a week because NIA sought time to file an appeal in the Supreme Court.
2022
Raut moves the Bombay High Court appealing against the NIA Court’s decision to deny him bail.
May 4, 2022
Bombay High Court dismissed the review petition of its December 1, 2021 judgment that had denied bail to Raut.
April, 2022
Raut approached the NIA court to discharge charges pressed against in lieu of the 2018 riot based violence.
December 1, 2021
Bombay High Court granted bail to Sudha Bhardwaj (co-accused) while denying the same to, inter alia, Mahesh Raut. The court while held that in the case of Raut, the aspect of legality or otherwise of the extension of the period of detention was of no relevance as they did not avail of the right to be released on default bail before the charge-sheet was filed against them on November 15, 2018. The court effectively said liberty belongs to those who seek it.
November 25, 2021
NIA Court denied bail to Raut. The court denied bail on the basis that Raut's name was found in a letter retrieved from co-accused Rona Wilson's computer. Raut argued that the existence of the letter is disputed because of forensic reports finding malware infiltration of Wilson's electronic devices.
August, 2021
NIA submitted draft charges to the NIA Court in Mumbai, claiming that Raut and others accused in the case were active members of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
February 14, 2020
The case is transferred from the Courts in Pune to the National Investigation Agency Court in Mumbai.
January 24, 2020
The Central government transfers the inquiry involving Raut from Pune police to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
November 7, 2019
Pune Sessions Court rejected his bail plea by holding that the evidence present before the court prima facie suggests that the acts of the applicants were against ‘democracy’. The court said it could move on with the trial if both the defence and prosecution were ready.
June 6, 2018
Mahesh Raut is arrested alongside four other Human Rights activists for allegedly inciting violence in Bhima Koregaon.
