Five human rights activists arrested in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence case will be kept under house arrest till September 6, the Supreme Court ordered yesterday.

While granting relief to Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonzalves, Sudha Bhardwaj and Gautam Navlakha, the top court did not consider for now the vehement opposition of Maharashtra government challenging the locus of the petitioners, historian Romila Thapar and four others, seeking relief on their behalf, and calling them "strangers".