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Maharashtra government holds meeting with Pune Police to review cases

Maharashtra government holds meeting with Pune Police to review cases

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Home Minister Anil Deshmukh met Pune Police officials on Thursday morning to review cases related to the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence, reported PTI. Maharashtra Director General Subodh Jaiswal and State Intelligence Commissioner Rashmi Shukla are also present at the meeting. However, details of the meeting at the state secretariat in Mumbai are not yet available.
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MHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT HOLDS MEETING TO REVIEW BHIMA KOREGAON CASE

23/01/2020

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

Several high profile figures in the new government have demanded that the action taken by the police should be reinvestigated.
Mumbai: Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and home minister Anil Deshmukh met senior police officials in Mumbai on Thursday to review the Koregaon Bhima violence case to decide if a reinvestigation is required into the action taken by the police.
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MAHARASHTRA REVIEWS BHIMA KOREGAON CASES IN WHICH ACTIVISTS WERE JAILED

23/01/2020

NDTV / by Purva Chitnis

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government is reviewing the cases related to the 2018 Koregaon Bhima violence, for which 10 activists were jailed during the previous BJP-led rule in the state.
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MVA govt to form fresh SIT probe into Bhima Koregaon Violence?

MVA govt to form fresh SIT probe into Bhima Koregaon Violence?

The Free Press Journal / by Sanjay Jog

Mumbai: The Maha Vikas Aghadi government may form a special investigation team (SIT) to carry out a fresh probe into the Bhima Koregaon violence and allegedly inflammatory speeches delivered in the Elgar Parishad.
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MAHARASHTRA LIKELY TO SET UP SIT TO PROBE ‘URBAN NAXAL’ CASES

23/01/2020

The Hindu / by Sharad Vyas

Home Minister to review progress in Elgar Parishad cases on Thursday.
Based on a letter from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, the Maharashtra government will soon appoint a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to relook into cases against ‘urban naxals’ for an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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9 arrested accused seek verification of data with ‘hash values’ of the original

9 arrested accused seek verification of data with ‘hash values’ of the original

The Indian Express / by Espress News Service

The court had ordered a verification process to be conducted on Tuesday in presence of four persons, including cyber experts nominated by the defence.
The nine arrested accused in the Elgaar Parishad case on Tuesday submitted an application to the court seeking that copies of the “seized data” given to them by the prosecution should be verified with the help of ‘hash values’ of the data recovered at the time of the purported seizure, back in 2018.
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Verification of e-documents underway at special court

Verification of e-documents underway at special court

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

The judge of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) court, which is hearing the Elgar Parishad case, had called for an expert on behalf of the accused to verify the veracity of the electronic documents provided to the accused, on Tuesday.
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Anand Teltumbde: These are dangerous people with state power, no option but to fight

Anand Teltumbde: These are dangerous people with state power, no option but to fight

The News Minute / interview by Nandini Nair

Scholar, writer and activist Anand Teltumbde’s voice cracks unnoticeably when he speaks about his mother, the woman who worked hard with her husband to raise their children in a village in Maharashtra. Anand was answering journalist Nandini Nair’s question on his mother and daughters at a session at the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode, where the two were in conversation on the subject ‘Annihilation of caste’.
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Israeli Court Bans Media From Pegasus Spyware Case Trials

Israeli Court Bans Media From Pegasus Spyware Case Trials

News Click / by Peoples Dispatch

Israeli company NSO exports the Pegasus spyware, which has been used by governments across the world against opposition activists and journalists, including in India.
In an apparent move to save the NSO group – owner of the Pegasus spyware – from public criticism, an Israeli court cited national security concerns and ordered a closed-door hearing in the case against the company.
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State officials among those who bought the spyware: Digvijay

State officials among those who bought the spyware: Digvijay

Mumbai Mirror / by Shruti Ganapatye

WhatsApp privacy breach: Spyware Pegasus was used to snoop on activists, journalists, political dissidents; state home minister promises probe.
Four months after WhatsApp made a sensational disclosure that Israeli spyware Pegasus was used to snoop on some Indian citizens, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh claimed yesterday that the Maharashtra government officials had visited Israel to purchase the technology.
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