April 2020 – Page 3 – free them all

Hindi Newspapers Look Away as Anand Teltumbde Is Arrested

15/04/2020 Maya

The Wire / by Aman Abhishek

In the aftermath of the Teltumbde’s arrest, his prescient comment calling media ‘subservient’ appears remarkably accurate.
Anand Teltumbde is a world-renowned public intellectual known for his rigorous analysis of the caste system in India. Perhaps one could have imagined, or at least hoped, that his arrest on the day of Ambedkar Jayanti would have generated a detailed coverage in the mainstream Hindi media, especially since the charges against him are very clearly directed at his intellectual work – he is accused of inciting caste-based violence and of being an “urban Naxal”.
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With Teltumbde and Navlakha in Jail, How Free is ‘Freedom’ in India?

15/04/2020 Maya

Drawing by Arun Ferreira

The Quint / by Apoorvanand

Two more minds would be deactivated for the public today. By imprisoning Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha, the government—and by facilitating it the courts— would not be able to stop their minds functioning for they’ll continue to think and think hard while behind the bars. The people of India, however, would be deprived of the product of the intellectual labour. It is quite different a matter whether it matters to the people or not.
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NIA Court Sends Anand Teltumbde to 4-Day Custody; Gautam Navlakha To Be Taken Tomorrow

14/04/2020 Maya

The Wire / by Sukanya Shantha

Both activists, accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, had surrendered today.
Mumbai: With the protection from arrest provided to them by the Supreme Court in the Bhima Koregaon case for nearly two years having finally ended, civil rights activist and academic Anand Teltumbde and journalist-activist Gautam Navlakha surrendered before the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday, April 14.
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Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha surrender before NIA

14/04/2020 Rani

Anand Teltumbde (left) and Gautam Navlakha (right) before surrendering

Live Law / by Live Law News Network

Noted academician and Dalit rights scholar Anand Teltumbde and civil liberties activist Gautam Navlakha surrendered before the National Investigation Agency in the case registered under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) alleging Maoist links in connection with Bhima Koregaon violence.
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Why Is Anand Teltumbde So Dangerous for the Narendra Modi Government?

14/04/2020 Rani

The Wire / by Jignesh Mevani and Meena Kandasamy

He is one of the followers of Babasaheb Ambedkar who has continuously highlighted the need to fight Hindutva on both the social and economic front.
Why is Anand Teltumbde being targeted in this vicious manner? Why have the powers-that-be decided that he, along with Gautam Navlakha must go to jail even as the Supreme Court wants prisoners to be released so as to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic?
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Under UAPA, Process Itself Becomes Punishment: Says Gautam Navlakha In Open Letter [read letter]

14/04/2020 Rani

Pic (right) by Shahid Tantray for The Caravan

Newsclick / by Newsclick / Gautam Navlakha

As the country remembers Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar on the occasion of his birth anniversary, civil rights activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde, who were booked under the draconian UAPA in relation to the Bhima Koregaon violence in 2018, are set to surrender to the police.

Letter by Gautam Navlakha

As I prepare to leave to surrender before the NIA headquarters in Delhi I am glad that Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Indira Banerjee gave me another week of freedom when they passed the order on April 8, 2020.
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