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Month: February 2019

Who is Gautam Navlakha?

Who is Gautam Navlakha?

By India Civil Watch

Gautam Navlakha is a Delhi-based veteran journalist, author, civil liberties, human rights and peace activist best known for his fierce and sustained critique of the Indian state’s militarism against its own citizenry in three broad zones – the northeastern states, Kashmir valley, and the central Indian forested zone in Chhattisgarh. He has been actively involved with the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) – one of India’s leading civil liberties and democratic rights defence organizations- working to protect, extend and help implement fundamental rights as guaranteed in the Indian constitution.
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Supplementary chargesheet brings little new information to the case

Supplementary chargesheet brings little new information to the case

Scroll.in/ By Mridula Chari

A new accused has been added to the case, along with claims that poet Varavara Rao helped to procure weapons from Nepal.
The Pune police on Thursday filed a supplementary chargesheet against four human rights activists, poet Varavara Rao, lawyer Arun Ferreira, and human rights activists Vernon Gonsalves and Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Bombay HC Extends Interim Bail Of Anand Teltumbde Till Feb 27

Bombay HC Extends Interim Bail Of Anand Teltumbde Till Feb 27

Live Law / By Live Law News Network

The Bombay High Court today extended till February 27 the interim protection from arrest granted to activist and academic Anand Teltumbde.
While Teltumbde’s plea seeking anticipatory bail was listed for hearing Friday, a single bench presided over by Justice N W Sambre adjourned the hearing and extended Teltumbde’s protection at the request of the latter’s counsel. Teltumbde is one of the 22 accused in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case.
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Maharastra told to file say on Surendra Gadling’s plea for seized e-data’s cloned copies

Maharastra told to file say on Surendra Gadling’s plea for seized e-data’s cloned copies

Times of India / By Vishwas Kothari

Officiating UAPA judge S S Gosavi on Friday asked the state prosecution to file a written say on activist Surendra Gadling’s plea seeking cloned copies of the 25 terabyte electronic data police seized in the Elgar Parishad case from all the arrested accused.
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SC Sets Aside Bombay HC Judgment Which Refused Additional Time To File Chargesheet Under UAPA

SC Sets Aside Bombay HC Judgment Which Refused Additional Time To File Chargesheet Under UAPA

Live Law / By Live Law News Network

The Supreme Court today set aside the Bombay High Court judgment which had refused to grant additional time beyond 90 days under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for filing the charge sheet against lawyer Surendra Gadling and four other activists arrested in Bhima Koregaon case.
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Supreme Court to pronounce verdict on Bhima Koregaon activists’ statutory bail tomorrow

Supreme Court to pronounce verdict on Bhima Koregaon activists’ statutory bail tomorrow

The Leaflet / By Nihalsing B Rahod

Judgment is to be pronounced tomorrow, February 13, 2019, by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the Supreme Court, which will pronounce judgment on the appeal file by Maharashtra government against the Bombay High Court decision refusing the cops a 90-day extension to file a chargesheet against the Bhima Koregaon arrestees, including Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Rona Wilson, Professor Shoma Sen and Sudhir Dhawale.
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Free the rights activists in India: Global academics and social justice crusaders issue statement

Free the rights activists in India: Global academics and social justice crusaders issue statement

The Leaflet / Statement by “Fresh Perspectives, USA”

To defend the rights of the imprisoned and to prevent further illegal detentions, we, a group of social justice activists and scholars, came together and formed an association called Fresh Perspectives, USA. We have reached out to public intellectuals, critical thinkers and scholars outside India to collect their voice condemning those illegal arrests and the violation of human rights in India. We were amazed by the response from scholars around the world. Some of the signatories are the most influential thinkers of late 20th and 21st Century. 
Here’s our public statement