The Wire / by Sukanya Shantha

The activists, Surendra Gadling and Sudhir Dhawale, have also sought response from the NIA for taking over the case 600 days after the Pune police’s investigation began.
Mumbai: After spending close to 750 days in jail, human rights activist Surendra Gadling and anti-caste activist and poet Sudhir Dhawale have challenged the state’s narrative of holding them and nine other human rights activists and lawyers in the prison and accusing them of being “urban Naxals”.
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ACCUSED CHALLENGE TRANSFER OF INVESTIGATION TO NIA [Read Petition]

Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap

Advocate Surendra Gadling and Activist Sudhir Dhawale, both accused of having maoist links and inciting the caste based violence that took place at at Koregaon Bhima on January 1, 2018 have filed a writ petition challenging the order of transfer of investigation in the case from Pune police to the National Investigation Agency passed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
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PETITION FILED IN BOMBAY HIGH COURT CHALLENGING TRANSFER OF CASE INVESTIGATION TO NIA

The Leaflet / by Ujjaini Chatterji

A Writ Petition has been filed before the High Court of Maharashtra at Bombay, challenging the transfer of the investigation for Bhima Koregaon and Elgar Parishad cases, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The Petitioners in the writ are Advocate Surendra Gadling, prominent lawyer who is famous for his court craft and immense knowledge of criminal law, and Sudhir Dhawale, a freelance journalist and anti-caste activist. Both of them are presently lodged in the Taloja Central jail for their alleged involvement in the case.
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