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Month: June 2020

A Call to the Conscience of Citizens! Rise up against a `Situation Worse than the Emergency’!

A Call to the Conscience of Citizens! Rise up against a `Situation Worse than the Emergency’!

By PUCL

Mr Ravi Kiran Jain – President
Dr V. Suresh – Nat. Gen Secretary

25th June 2020 marks the 45th year of the Declaration of the infamous Emergency Declaration of Indira Gandhi. It is a day remembered as the day in 1975, when the Indian Government waged a war on its own people, suspending the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution and turning India into an authoritarian country. …

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Chhattisgarh PUCL Calls for the Immediate Roll Back of the Undeclared Emergency

Chhattisgarh PUCL Calls for the Immediate Roll Back of the Undeclared Emergency


Drawing by Arun Ferreira

By People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Chhattisgarh

Release All Political Prisoners!
Repeal Draconian Laws!
Stop Gagging the Media!

June 25th, 2020: On this day in 1975, the then-Indian Government imposed the State of Emergency in India, suspending all fundamental rights and commencing one of the darkest periods of Indian democracy. Today, after a span of forty-five years, we the people of India find ourselves in a similar situation, living in a de facto state of emergency, which has not been officially declared, where scores of ordinary citizens to who dared to criticize the government are being arbitrarily arrested under draconian laws meant only for rarest cases of international terror. The Chhattisgarh chapter of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties is observing this day as the Anti-Emergency Day –to demand the release of arrested human rights workers, and to renew our pledge to uphold the Constitution of India, with all its promises of freedom and equality, in its true spirit. …

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Videos: Voices in Defence of the Wrongfully Imprisoned

Videos: Voices in Defence of the Wrongfully Imprisoned

By India Civil Watch & Indian Cultural Forum (ICF)

On January 1, 2018, a group of people who had gathered at the site of the battle of Bhima Koregaon, were attacked by Hindutva forces. What followed, is a witch hunt – 11 activists have since been falsely implicated and put behind bars for their alleged, but unproved, role in inciting violence on that day. The civil society in India has come together once again, demanding the release of the wrongfully imprisoned. These videos, released by the Indian Civil Watch, is a part of one such effort.
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Petition On Case Transfer By Bhima Koregaon Accused: Centre Seeks Time To File Reply

Petition On Case Transfer By Bhima Koregaon Accused: Centre Seeks Time To File Reply

Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in petition filed by two accused in the Bhima Koregaon case challenging transfer of investigation to the National Investigation Agency, after the Centre sought time to file a reply to the contentions raised.
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Elgar Case Transfer: HC Seeks NIA, Centre and Maha Govt Response Before July 14

23/06/2020

Newslick / by pti

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday sought responses from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Central and Maharashtra governments on a petition filed by the two accused, Surendra Gadling and Sudhir Dhawale, challenging transfer of the Elgar Parishad case probe from the Pune police to the NIA.
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Sudha Bharadwaj files interim bail application before Bombay HC

Sudha Bharadwaj files interim bail application before Bombay HC

The Leaflet / by The Leaflet

A petition was filed by Advocates Yug Chaudhury and Ragini Ahuja, before the Bombay High Court, seeking interim bail for Activist and Lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj on medical grounds. Earlier, the bail application of Sudha Bharadwaj was rejected by the Special Judge, National Investigative Agency in Mumbai on May 29, 2020.
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HC TO HEAR ON FRIDAY SUDHA BHARADWAJ’S BAIL APPLICATION

23/06/2020

Outlook – The News Scroll / by pti

Mumbai, Jun 23 (PTI): The Bombay High Court will hear on Friday a bail application filed by activist Sudha Bharadwaj, an accused in the Elgar Parishad case.
Bharadwaj, who was arrested in August 2018, moved the HC last week against the order of the NIA court in Mumbai that rejected her interim bail plea on May 29.
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Video: Authors and Poets call on the Government of India to Release the BK11 Activists

Video: Authors and Poets call on the Government of India to Release the BK11 Activists


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By Amnesty International India

The words of 80-year old #BK11 activist/poet Varavara Rao have inspired many. During the #COVID19 pandemic @meenakandasamy @NitashaKaul & Apoorvanand bring his words to life & call for his immediate release along with that of 10 other activists on humanitarian grounds.
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Sudha Bharadwaj moves Bombay HC against NIA court rejecting interim bail plea

Sudha Bharadwaj moves Bombay HC against NIA court rejecting interim bail plea

The Indian Express / by Espress News Service

Activist Sudha Bharadwaj (58), currently lodged in Mumbai’s Byculla Women’s jail – where an inmate had tested positive for Covid-19 last month – had sought temporary bail before the special court on medical grounds in view of the pandemic. The plea was rejected by the court.
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NIA wants to question Gautam Navlakha again

NIA wants to question Gautam Navlakha again

Hindustan Times / by Charul Shah

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has moved an application to once again obtain the custody of civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha who was arrested in the Elgar Parishad case after he surrendered at the agency’s Delhi office on April 14…
Meanwhile, Navlakha has sought bail as the agency has failed to file a charge sheet within 90 days.
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Gautam Navlakha’s petitions are scheduled for hearing on June 26, 2020.

Temporary jail condition deplorable, Navlakha tells partner, lawyer

Temporary jail condition deplorable, Navlakha tells partner, lawyer


Drawing by Arun Ferreira

The Indian Express / by Sadaf Modak

Last month, activist Gautam Navlakha was shifted from Tihar jail in Delhi to Mumbai and has since been kept in the school as new inmates are being quarantined before being shifted to the Taloja central jail to avoid an outbreak inside.
Journalist and activist Gautam Navlakha, arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case, informed his lawyers and family members on Saturday that a school in Kharghar set up as a temporary jail where inmates were being kept was in a ‘deplorable condition’.
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NAVLAKHA KEPT IN ‘DEPLORABLE’ CONDITIONS, SAYS PARTNER

The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal

As many as 350 Taloja inmates crammed into six classrooms being used as quarantine facility.
Activist Gautam Navlakha, incarcerated in the Bhima-Koregaon case, is being kept in deplorable conditions in a quarantine facility in Taloja for the last three weeks, his partner Sahba Husain said on Sunday.
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Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan shares worrying letter on jail conditions in #TalojaJail #Maharashtra as narrated by activist Gautam Navlakha to partner Sahba.

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