The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal
The Pune Police on Tuesday filed an application before the Bombay High Court seeking the presence of Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde, both accused in the Elgar Parishad case related to the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
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The Hindu / by Gautam Bhatia
Last month, the news website Scroll revealed that more than 10,000 people in the Khunti district of Jharkhand had been chargesheeted by the police for sedition. These people are overwhelmingly Adivasis. Then, in early December, a judicial probe completed a seven-year long investigation, finding that a so-called encounter of “Maoists” in Chhattisgarh by security forces, in 2012, had been a “fake encounter” all along. The people killed had not been Maoists, but innocent villagers.
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Denton Daily / by Denton Staff Contributor
Author and scholar Professor Anand Teltumbde is one of the activists charged with sedition in the Bhima-Koregaon violence case …
“I have already listed out all the evidence that they produced in their affidavit before the high court. The court had specifically asked them to say all that they had to say against me and that is what they submitted. If one has to fabricate, there is no end to do that,” Professor Teltumbde, below, tells‘s Syed Fridaus Ashraf in an e-mail interview.
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The Caravan / by Martand Kaushik and Anjaneya Sivan
An examination of the digital evidence presented by the Pune Police in court against prominent human-rights activists accused in the Bhima Koregaon case has revealed several technical anomalies and clear procedural violations by the force.
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The Washington Post / by Kavita Krishnan
… The same propagandists that celebrate lynchings and custodial killings as “justice” and profile Muslims as “rapists” and “love jihadis” also call feminists “anti-nationals” and proponents of “free sex.” Feminist lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, who helped indigenous people in central India fight legal battles against custodial rapes and killings by police and paramilitary, is currently in jail after pro-government TV channels and police ran a campaign branding her an “urban Naxal,” or agent of left-wing militants.
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The Asia Age / by The Asia Age
State argued that the Bhima-Koregaon accused received Rs 10 lakh from CPI (Maoist).
The state government argued that professor Teltumbde is an active member of the banned outfit, CPI (Maoist), and its frontal Naxalite organisations, and works as a recruiter and fund collector for these organisations. Justice P.D. Naik was hearing the ABA of Teltumbde and journalist Gautam Navlakha. Special public prosecutor Aruna Pai argued before the court that the investigation has gone beyond Bhima-Koregaon and the riots, and that professor Teltumbde’s name came up for the first time in August 2018.
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13/12/2019
MUMBAI: A prosecutor on Wednesday submitted a sealed envelop containing material against civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde to argue for his arrest in the Elgar Parishad case.
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The Free Press Journal / by Staff Reporter
Mumbai: In a bid to secure the custody of academician Anand Teltumbde, the Pune Police on Thursday told the Bombay High Court that the professor had an ‘active’ connection with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) (CPI M) group.
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13 / 12 / 2019
The Asian Age / by The Asian Age
State argued that the Bhima-Koregaon accused received Rs 10 lakh from CPI (Maoist).
Mumbai: The state government has vehemently opposed the anticipatory bail application (ABA) of professor Anand Teltumbde, accused of instigating riots at Bhima-Koregaon.
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The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal
Letter condemns ‘environment of fear promoted by State’
On International Human Rights Day on Tuesday, all nine accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence wrote to the chairperson of the State Human Rights Commission, “condemning the environment of fear and criminalisation promoted by the State wherein the human rights of Indian citizens and especially those of human rights defenders who are critical of State policies are under threat.”
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Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff
The signatories to the letter said that their bail applications were rejected by the court in spite of the reputations they had.
Eight of the 10 accused in the Bhima Koregaon case on Tuesday wrote to the Maharashtra Human Rights Commission, alleging that the state government had imprisoned them due to their dissenting views as defenders of human rights.
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