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Bhima Koregaon Has Become a Pretext to Arrest Innocent Workers

Bhima Koregaon Has Become a Pretext to Arrest Innocent Workers

The Wire / By Akhil Vasudevan

The Bhima Koregaon link is helping the police in three ways – it is delegitimising a people’s movement by accusing it of having Maoist links, covering up for the real perpetrators while targeting those who are fighting for the marginalised in the country.
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Letter of Mumbai Electric Employees Union to the Chief Minister regarding arrest of four of their members and on behalf of the other workers.
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Statement by Gautam Navlakha on his Release

Statement by Gautam Navlakha on his Release

Statment by Gautam Navlakha

Statement of an Urban Naxal
I wish to thank the majority and dissenting Justices of the Supreme Court for their judgment, which allowed us four weeks to seek relief in this matter, and the public-spirited citizens & lawyers of India for putting up  a spirited fight on our behalf, whose memory I will cherish. I am humbled by the solidarity, which crossed borders, rallying in our support.
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PUDR: Statement on the Supreme Court´s Verdict On the Arrest of 5 Activists Under The UAPA.

PUDR: Statement on the Supreme Court´s Verdict On the Arrest of 5 Activists Under The UAPA.

Statement by PUDR


Peoples Union of Democratic Rights (PUDR) welcomes the Supreme Court’s order on the petition filed by Prof. Romila Thapar and others for extending protection from custody to the five activists- Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bhardwaj and Arun Ferreira- arrested a month ago by the Maharashtra Police. A three-judge bench in its 2:1 majority judgment, even in refusing the demand of the petitioners for constituting a Special Investigating Team, recognised the damage to individuals that can be caused by such arbitrary arrests and has enabled every possible challenge to this power before the appropriate courts to secure personal liberty of the five activists.
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„Misuse of Powers to harass Dissenters also Terrorism“

„Misuse of Powers to harass Dissenters also Terrorism“

SABRANG INDIA / Statement of Romila Thapar a.o.

When human five rights activists were arrested by the Pune Police in what was seen as a nationwide crackdown on dissenting voices, civil society members led by Romila Thapar moved the Supreme Court against this. Today after the apex court disposed the petition and directed the activists to seek relief from lower courts, the petitioners have issued the following press release.
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Not A Case Of Arrest For Dissent, SC Turns Down Plea For SIT In Bhima Koregaon Case By 2:1 Majority, Chandrachud J Dissents

Not A Case Of Arrest For Dissent, SC Turns Down Plea For SIT In Bhima Koregaon Case By 2:1 Majority, Chandrachud J Dissents

LIVE LAW NEWS NETWORK / By Live Law News Network

The Supreme Court turned down the plea for probe by a Special Investigation Team into the Bhima Koregaon case. The majority opinion by Justice A M Khanwilkar and CJI Dipak Misra dismissed the plea; however, Justice D Y Chandrachud dissented, holding the arrests to be baseless.
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