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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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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The Wire / by the Wire Staff

Nine rights activists have been in jail since June 2018. Several NCP leaders including the party chief Sharad Pawar had sought a fresh probe in the case.
Mumbai: A month after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar claimed that the Pune police had wrongly targeted activists and arrested them under false charges for being “Urban Naxals”, Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh has sought a detailed report on the Bhima Koregaon case investigation.
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Hindustan Time / by Shalaka Shinde

Additional sessions judge SR Navander pushed for a speedy trial and expressed his disappointment at the defence for not having appointed an expert before Wednesday’s hearing even though the order was passed on December 18, 2019.
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