cpim.org / by CPI(M) Central Committee Office
We are herewith releasing the full text of the letter addressed to the Home Minister, Amit Shah by CPI(M) Polit Bureau Member, Brinda Karat. This pertains to the inhuman treatment of human rights activists arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. The letter was sent today.
Read more
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Binoy Viswam writes to Uddhav Thackeray joining the other MPs in demanding adequate medical care and intervention for 81-year-old poet Varavara Rao, the other Bhima Koregaon accused and G.N. Saibaba.
Click to enlarge letter
19/06/2020
Maktoob / by Editorial Desk
In a letter to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, more than ten parliamentarians have registered their grave concern at the deteriorating health of the 81-year-old people’s poet Varavara Rao, now lodged in Taloja Jail under the Bhima Koregaon case.
Read more
Click to enlarge letter
19/06/2020
Court Updates June 19: Hearing for VV Rao’s Bail Application further extended to 26 June. For Shoma Sen the court has granted permission to the lawyers to speak to her over a whatsapp call for 10 minutes to better understand her health condition. The court has scheduled the hearing for Sen’s plea on June 26 as well.
20/06/2020
Hindustan Times / by Charul Shah
Veteran Telugu poet P Varavara Rao’s plea for interim bail was heard on Friday by the special judge, almost a month after Rao moved the special court seeking interim bail on May 15 … Meanwhile lawyers for Dr Shoma Sen obtained permission to speak to her through video call before making submissions on the interim bail filed for her.
Read more
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”.
Read more
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.
Read more
Read petition here
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.
Read more
India Legal / by India Legal
The Supreme Court has today asked the National Investigation Agency to provide Gautam Navlakha’s Counsel with a copy of its petition, while adjourning the matter till July 6. The interim order of the Court ordering stay on the Delhi High Court’s order will continue till then.
Read more
MediaNama / by Aditi Agrawal
On June 16, MediaNama conducted a telephonic interview with Etienne Maynier, a technologist at Amnesty International, who was part of the team that investigated the coordinated spyware attack against at least nine human rights activists in India, eight of whom have called for the release of eleven activists arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case.
Read more
Also Read: Human Rights Defenders Targeted by a Coordinated Spyware Operation
Mumbai Mirror / by Shruti Ganapatye
The Bhima Koregaon Commission’s tenure has expired two month. This has left the state government red faced which had promised a fresh probe in the violence. Sources in the home department said that the commission would get only one month’s extension before winding up.
Read more
The New Indian Express / by Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Over 300 prominent citizens appealed for the release of 11 jailed activists, including Varavara Rao and Sudha Bhardwaj, who are yet to get bail despite prisons being overcrowded and some inmates testing COVID positive.
Read more
7:27min | 2020
By friends of Mahesh #freemahesh
Mahesh Raut, our brother and friend, is in jail for over 2 years. For defending democracy, in his home district, Gadchiroli. He deserves to be free.
This video is an attempt to present the real picture which paid media won’t show you.
Watch video
81-YR-OLD VARAVARA RAO DETERIORATING RAPIDLY
Calls by other inmates reveal he is very sick, vomiting often.
Covid-19 is raging in Taloja jail. No mass testing, swabs taken after death.
Save his life.
URGENT MEDICAL ATTENTION IS NEED OF THE HOUR
@OfficeofUT @PawarSpeaks