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Month: September 2019

CJI recuses himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to quash FIR

CJI recuses himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to quash FIR

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

Navlakha has challenged a Bombay High Court order turning down his petition.
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Monday recused himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to quash a first information report filed against him in the Bhima Koregaon case, reported Bar and Bench. Navlakha has challenged a Bombay High Court order rejecting his petition.
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‘My life hangs by a thread’: Activist Stan Swamy on Bhima Koregaon, Adivasi resistance in Jharkhand

‘My life hangs by a thread’: Activist Stan Swamy on Bhima Koregaon, Adivasi resistance in Jharkhand

Scroll.in / by Sneha Philip & Smarnita Shetty

Criminal justice procedures are being misused to repress undertrials in the state’s jails who are falsely accused of being Maoists.
In this interview Swamy discusses the emergence and growth of people’s movements, his work with young Adivasi undertrials who are falsely accused of being Maoists, the difficult choices that confront young Adivasis today and the ongoing case against him in connection with the Bhima Koregaon caste clashes near Pune in 2018.
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Protest Against Modi Outside UN Headquarters in New York

Protest Against Modi Outside UN Headquarters in New York


Poster by Coalition Against Fascism in India

The Wire / by Raghavi Sharma

The Coalition Against Fascism in India said that the Modi government has been “orchestrating a pogrom of hate and violence against Muslims and Dalits in India”, and has “disenfranchised seven million Kashmiris”.
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Gadchiroli court rejects bail plea by Gadling

Gadchiroli court rejects bail plea by Gadling

The Indian Express / by Chandan Haygunde

Gadchiroli Sessions Judge S C Khati passed an order in this regard on September 23. Following the Surjagad incident on December 27, 2016, an offence was lodged at the Etapalli police station in Gadchiroli district.
A court in Gadchiroli has rejected the bail application filed by lawyer Surendra Gadling in connection with an incident of arson in December 2016.
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Being inspired by Marxism is not enough to incriminate me, Arun Ferreira tells Bombay high court

Being inspired by Marxism is not enough to incriminate me, Arun Ferreira tells Bombay high court

Hindustan Times / by KAY Dodhiya

Arguments in the bail application of lawyer and human rights activist Arun Ferreira concluded on Monday in the Bombay high court (HC). Ferreira, along with civil rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj and activist Vernon Gonsalves, is in jail for their alleged involvement in the 2017 Elgar Parishad conclave, which purportedly led to the Bhima-Koregaon violence on January 1, 2018.
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Evidence not enough to implicate Sudha Bharadwaj: Defence

Evidence not enough to implicate Sudha Bharadwaj: Defence


Solidarity Programme (Aug 28, 2019)

The Asian Age / by The Asian Age

A single bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal was hearing the bail application filed by co-accused Vernon Gonsalves and Bharadwaj.
Mumbai: Bhima-Koregaon violence accused Sudha Bharadwaj’s counsel on Thursday argued before the court that six documents and one witness were not enough to accuse her of terrorist activities.
He contended that since she had been in jail for one year, she should be released on bail.
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