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NIA Court Sends Anand Teltumbde to 4-Day Custody; Gautam Navlakha To Be Taken Tomorrow

14/04/2020 Maya

The Wire / by Sukanya Shantha

Both activists, accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, had surrendered today.
Mumbai: With the protection from arrest provided to them by the Supreme Court in the Bhima Koregaon case for nearly two years having finally ended, civil rights activist and academic Anand Teltumbde and journalist-activist Gautam Navlakha surrendered before the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday, April 14.
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Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha surrender before NIA

14/04/2020 Rani

Anand Teltumbde (left) and Gautam Navlakha (right) before surrendering

Live Law / by Live Law News Network

Noted academician and Dalit rights scholar Anand Teltumbde and civil liberties activist Gautam Navlakha surrendered before the National Investigation Agency in the case registered under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) alleging Maoist links in connection with Bhima Koregaon violence.
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Anand Teltumbde’s Letter To The People Of India Before His Imminent Arrest [read letter]

13/04/2020 Rani

Sabrang / by Anand Teltumbde

Open letter to the People of India

I am aware this may be completely drowned in the motivated cacophony of the BJP-RSS combine and the subservient media but I still think it may be worth talking to you as I do not know whether I would get another opportunity.
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How 2-minute Phone Call Keeps Jailed Activists In Touch With Families

06/04/2020 Rani

Drawing by Arun Ferreira

The Outlook / by Preetha Nair

Why is the Maharashtra government sitting on the Supreme Court order? Are they waiting for people to die in prison? ask kin of activists.
It had over a month since jailed activist Varavara Rao’s family had heard from him. They were anxious and desperate to know how the 80-year-old poet-activist-journalist, who has been languishing in prison for alleged links to Maoists, was doing.
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Anand Teltumbde: “Plot to kill PM” was a deliberate ploy to sensationalise the case

26/03/2020 Maya

Asiavillennews.com / by Amit Bhardwaj

Teltumbde, accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case under the UAPA, claims that the entire case against him is fabricated. On March 16, the SC gave him three weeks to surrender. In conversation with Asiaville, the noted scholar said that the Bhima-Koregaon arrests are a deliberate attempt to trap noted civil rights activists opposed to the BJP’s ideology.
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Sign Global Solidarity Statement for Dr. Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha

25/03/2020 Maya

By India Civil Watch

Signatories include eminent public figures such as Noam Chomsky, Gayatri Spivak, Sukhadeo Thorat, Cornel West, Angela Davis, Kshama Sawant, Ramachandra Guha, Prakash Ambedkar and Arundhati Roy.
Sign statement here

Statement for Dr. Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha:
We, the undersigned (organizations and individuals) protest the impending arrest of Professor Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha and strongly condemn the attempt to malign their status as two of India’s foremost civil rights activists and public intellectuals today. …

Why We Must Defend Anand Teltumbde

17/03/2020 Maya

The Wire / by Ajay Gudavarthy

The academic’s impending arrest needs to be seen as part of a larger narrative that is changing the terms of the way we think of politics and democracy.
Something sinister is cooking, looking at the urgency with which the Bhima Koregaon case has been shifted from the Pune Police to the Centre, under the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The arrests that have happened under the current regime are neither random nor to do only with resisting the current regime.
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Gautam Navlakha: Dare I hope to be freed from the burden of yet another conspiracy trial?

16/03/2020 Maya

Pic: Gautam after his release 2018

The Caravan / by Gautam Navlakha

On 16 March 2020, a Supreme Court bench comprising the judges Arun Mishra and Mukeshkumar Rasikbhai Shah rejected the anticipatory bail pleas of civil-rights activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde, in relation to the violence at Bhima Koregaon in January 2018. Navlakha and Teltumbde were booked by the Pune Police under the draconian Unlawaful Activities (Prevention) Act for alleged Maoist links in 2018. The Supreme Court has asked Navlakha and Teltumbde to surrender within three weeks.
Gautam Navlakha released the following statement soon after being denied anticipatory bail:

SC Denies Pre-Arrest Bail To Gautam Navlakha & Anand Teltumbde

16/03/2020 Maya

Live Law / Livelaw News Network

The Supreme Court on Monday denied anticipatory bail to activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde in the case registered under Unlawful Activities Act alleging Maoist links in connection with Bhima Koregaon violence.
A bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah dismissed the special leave petitions filed by them challenging the February 15 judgments of Bombay High Court which denied them pre-arrest bail on the finding that a prima Facie case was made out agaonst them based on materials on record.
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SC REJECTS ANTICIPATORY BAIL PLEAS OF NAVLAKHA, TELTUMBDE

16/03/2020

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M.R. Shah asked both the activists to surrender within three weeks.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail pleas of civil rights activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence case.
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Rona Wilson’s hard disk contained malware that allowed remote access

12/03/2020 Maya

The Caravan / by Martand Kaushik and Anjeneya Sivan

On 17 April 2018, the Pune Police raided the Delhi home of Rona Wilson, a noted prison-rights activist, and arrested him for his alleged role in the violence at the Bhima Koregaon memorial in January that year. A few months later, the police claimed that it had found a letter on the hard disk of Wilson’s computer that contained details of a “naxal” plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and “overthrow the government.”
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