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Month: November 2018

‘Police Attributed False Statement to Me in Bhima Koregaon Chargesheet’: Justice Sawant

‘Police Attributed False Statement to Me in Bhima Koregaon Chargesheet’: Justice Sawant

The Wire / By Sukanya Shantha

The statement attached to the chargesheet claims Sawant was not aware of the event’s agenda and that it was organised without the police’s permission.
Retired Supreme Court justice P.B. Sawant has alleged that the Pune rural police falsely attributed a statement to him in the recently filed chargesheet against five persons arrested in the Bhima Koregaon violence case.
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Perpetuation of Unlawful Activities

Perpetuation of Unlawful Activities

Groundxero / By Padmaja Shaw


Foto: Mumbai rises archive

The courts, by not intervening in the abuse of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, are becoming the legal instruments in the hands of the state to perpetuate unlawful activities. If civil liberties lawyers are targets of such laws, who will fight for the rights of the marginalised that the Chief Justice referred to?
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Police Gets More Time to File Supplementary Chargesheet

Police Gets More Time to File Supplementary Chargesheet

The Wire / By PTI

Pune: A court here on Monday, November 26, granted 90-day extension to the Pune police for filing a supplementary charge sheet against rights activists Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferriera, Sudha Bharadwaj and Varavara Rao in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
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Jharkhand Govt training Adivasis to fight/kill Adivasis: a Note of Resistance

Jharkhand Govt training Adivasis to fight/kill Adivasis: a Note of Resistance

First published: Jul 14, 2014

India Restists / By Stan Swamy

“Tribals to be trained in guerrilla warfare to fight Maoists in state” (Hindustan Times, Ranchi edition, 30-6-2014). The newspaper report goes on to spell out govt’s plan. Two special battalions comprising of youths from the primitive tribal groups in the state will be recruited and trained in advanced guerrilla warfare to fight the Maoists in the forests.
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Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy get relief from arrest till December 14

Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy get relief from arrest till December 14

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

The Bombay High Court asked the prosecution to submit by December 4 all the relevant material in the case against the activists.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the police from arresting activists Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde and Stan Swamy till December 14, PTI reported. While Navlakha had been arrested in August in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, the homes and offices of Teltumbde and Swamy had been searched.
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“Neither the `anonymous complaints´ nor the `threats of arrests´ are new for me“

“Neither the `anonymous complaints´ nor the `threats of arrests´ are new for me“

Round Table India / By Degree Prasad Chouhan

The state is continuously trying to establish a fake connection between naxals and me. I have been targeted by the state and non-state actors because of my sustained activism and my work against the feudal society, where the marginalized communities are suppressed and evicted, deprived of their human rights. This is branding and stigmatisation of Human Rights Defenders in India.
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