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Unwilling to Give Delhi High Court Details of Navlakha’s ‘Hasty Transfer’, NIA Gets SC Stay

Unwilling to Give Delhi High Court Details of Navlakha’s ‘Hasty Transfer’, NIA Gets SC Stay

The Wire / by The Wire Analysis

After failing to raise jurisdictional issues earlier and undertaking to submit an affidavit on its handling of the matter, the government now says a single judge of the Delhi high court has no locus to hear a plea for interim bail under the NIA Act.
New Delhi: In a move that pits one constitutional court against another, the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday chose to rush to the Supreme Court for a stay rather than comply with an order by Justice Anup Bhambhani of the Delhi high court asking for the complete record of the process it had followed in moving Gautam Navlakha to Mumbai in a “frantic hurry”.
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Indian Americans Forum concerned about Varavara Rao’s health

Indian Americans Forum concerned about Varavara Rao’s health

Siasat.com / by Indian Americans Forum

Chicago: Indian Americans Forum is concerned about the recent news of renowned poet Varavara Rao’s health. Varavara Rao, age 81 who is a well known activist, writer, poet and lecturer got arrested 1.5 years ago in the alleged Elgar Parishad case which is still in trial.
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SC Stays Gautam Navlakha’s Bail Proceedings Before Delhi High Court

SC Stays Gautam Navlakha’s Bail Proceedings Before Delhi High Court

Live.law / by Sanya Talwar & Nilashish Chaudhary

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the proceedings in the Gautam Navlakha’s bail proceedings before Delhi High Court. The Court was hearing an appeal filed by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) against a May 27 order of the Delhi High Court whereby it directed the agency to furnish a complete record of the proceedings before the NIA Special Judges based on which he was transferred to Mumbai.
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SC SEEKS REPLY OF GAUTAM NAVLAKHA ON NIA’S PLEA

The Times of India / by PTI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday sought response from civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha on NIA plea challenging Delhi high court order seeking records of judicial proceedings before special courts in the national capital and Mumbai in the Bhima Koregaon case.
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Varavara Rao discharged from hospital, sent back to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai

Varavara Rao discharged from hospital, sent back to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai

The Indian Express / Express News Service

Hospital superintendent Sanjay Surase said that Varavara Rao was discharged after he was declared “fit” and that he was admitted due to “giddiness”.
Poet and academician P Varavara Rao was discharged from JJ hospital in Mumbai on Monday and shifted back to Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai. The 80 year old, booked in the Elgaar Parishad case, was rushed to hospital on Thursday after he fell unconscious in the jail.
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Denying bail in Elgaar Parishad case to political prisoners is callous: PUCL

Denying bail in Elgaar Parishad case to political prisoners is callous: PUCL

The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal

‘In COVID-19 times, especially when Maharashtra has emerged as the State with the highest number of cases, differentially treating bail petitions by political prisoners is gross injustice’.
The denial of bail to all accused in the Elgaar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case was “patently callous”, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said on Monday, and urged that the health and safety of political prisoners be treated with the same urgency as other prisoners.
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PUDR: The Lessons of Bhima Koregaon Case: No Bail, Only Jail

01/06/2020

Kractivism / by PUDR

With the surrenders of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha on April 14, 2020 in Mumbai and Delhi respectively, the NIA, the investigative agency, has ensured the arrest of all 11 prominent human rights activists in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case under the draconian UAPA. The recent rejection of the bail applications of Varavara Rao, Anand Teltumbde, Shoma Sen and Sudha Bharadwaj, and the sudden transfer of Gautam Navlakha by the NIA, raise significant questions about the rights of political prisoners amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Injustice In The Courts: Four Indian Laws That Should Have Never Existed

Injustice In The Courts: Four Indian Laws That Should Have Never Existed


Drawing by Fathima Z. B.

Maktoobmedia.com / by Mrinal Sharma, Amnesty International India

First published May 6, 2020
The criminal justice system loses credibility when people are detained for no good reason. In India, this happens frequently under many laws, where journalists, human rights defenders, lawyers, and students are arrested just for being critical of the government.
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Former CICs call for release of Telugu poet & journalist P Varavara Rao [read letter]

Former CICs call for release of Telugu poet & journalist P Varavara Rao [read letter]

National Herald / by NH Web Desk.

Shailesh Gandhi and Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu have written a letter to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray calling for 80-year-old P Varavara Rao’s release, pointing out several grounds to do so.
Two former Central Information Commissioners, Shailesh Gandhi and Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu have written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray calling for the release of renowned Telugu poet, journalist and lecturer P Varavara Rao, who is in judicial custody for the last 18 months in Bhima Koregaon case for an alleged attempt to murder Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Denial of bail: Will courts inquire into their writings, speeches?

Denial of bail: Will courts inquire into their writings, speeches?

Counterview / by Vidya Bhushan Rawat

It is deeply disturbing that 81-year-old poet Varavara Rao has been denied bail and has now been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai. Reports suggest that the prison in Taloja, Navi Mumbai, where he was lodged, has several Covid-19 patient. The family and friends of Varavara Rao have protested in Hyderabad, as they were not even allowed to visit him.
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Revolutionary poet Varvara Rao admitted to Mumbai hospital

Revolutionary poet Varvara Rao admitted to Mumbai hospital


VV Rao’s daughter Pavana and wife Hemalatha protest in Hyderabad on Friday

The New Indian Express / by IANS

Varavara Rao’s wife Hemalatha and daughter Pavana staged a three-hour-long protest at home, holding placards for release of the 80-year-old who was arrested in November 2018.
HYDERABAD: Revolutionary Telugu poet and writer Varavara Rao, who is in judicial custody in Maharashtra in the Bhima Koregaon case, has been admitted to JJ Hospital at Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
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Activist Varavara Rao admitted to hospital in Mumbai

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

Taloja Jail authorities said Rao was being treated at the medical facility within the jail, but his condition did not improve for three days.
Varavara Rao, the 81-year-old Telugu poet and an accused in the Elgar Parishad case, was admitted to JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Thursday, the Hindustan Times reported. Taloja Jail authorities said Rao was being treated at the medical facility within the jail over the last three days, but was shifted to hospital after his condition did not improve.
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