Bombay HC calls Arun Ferreira’s 2011 arrest illegal, orders Rs 2 lakh compensation

30/10/2026

The New Indian Express / by Sudhir Suryawanshi

Arun Ferreira was arrested in 2007 in multiple cases. Following acquittal in all the cases, the activist was to be released from Nagpur prison in September 2011
The Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench has held that the September 2011 arrest of activist Arun Ferreira was “illegal” and directed the Maharashtra government to pay him Rs 2 lakh in compensation.
… Ferreira is also an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case and is currently out on bail.
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Activist Arun Ferreira’s arrest illegal, give him Rs 2L: Bombay HC

31/10/2026

Times of India / by Vaibhav Ganjapure

Bombay HC has directed Maharashtra govt to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation to activist Arun Ferreira, ruling that his arrest outside Nagpur Central Prison in 2011 violated his fundamental rights under Articles 21 and 22. Partly allowing his 2012 plea, the Nagpur bench ordered the govt to deposit the amount in court within eight weeks.
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Bombay High Court grants ₹2 lakh compensation to Arun Ferreira for illegal arrest outside Nagpur Jail in 2011

30/10/2026

Bar & Bench / by Neha Joshi

The Court slammed the police for branding an undertrial as ‘absconding’ while he was detained in jail, and held that the arrest in an unmarked car violated constitutional safeguards.
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has held the September 2011 re-arrest of activist Arun Thomas Ferreira illegal and directed the State of Maharashtra to pay him ₹2 lakh in compensation. [Arun Thomas Ferreira v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.]
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Also read/watch:
▪ Court Rejects NIA’s Plea to Put Elgar Parishad Accused Back in Jail (The Wire / Aug 2026)
▪ Voices From Prison | Book Excerpt: Colours Of The Cage: A Prison Memoir, By Arun Ferreira (Outlook / Jan 2026)
▪ ‘No Material’ to Demonstrate Terror Link, Yet Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferriera Spent 5 Years in Jail [Read judgment] (The Wire / Jul 2023)

▪ Colours Of The Cage

Author: Arun Ferreira
Publishing Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Pages: 176
In May 2007, human rights activist Arun Ferreira was picked up from the railway station and arrested by the Nagpur Police on charges of being a Naxalite. Over the next few months, he was charged with more crimes—of criminal conspiracy, murder, possession of arms and rioting, among others—and incarcerated in one of the most notorious prisons in Maharashtra, the Nagpur Central Jail.
This is an account of the nearly five years that Ferreira was imprisoned.
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▪ Video: Arun Ferreira speaks about Life in an Indian Prison

en | 12:51 min | 2014
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