Case Update – Page 59 – free them all

After CJI, another SC judge recuses himself from hearing Gautam Navlakha’s plea

01/10/2019 Maya

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

A bench headed by Justice NV Ramana said the matter would be listed before another bench on October 3.
Supreme Court judge BR Gavai on Tuesday recused himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to quash a first information report filed against him in the Bhima Koregaon case, ANI reported. This came a day after Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi recused himself from the case.
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CJI recuses himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to quash FIR

30/09/2019 Maya

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

Navlakha has challenged a Bombay High Court order turning down his petition.
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Monday recused himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to quash a first information report filed against him in the Bhima Koregaon case, reported Bar and Bench. Navlakha has challenged a Bombay High Court order rejecting his petition.
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Gadchiroli court rejects bail plea by Gadling

26/09/2019 Maya

The Indian Express / by Chandan Haygunde

Gadchiroli Sessions Judge S C Khati passed an order in this regard on September 23. Following the Surjagad incident on December 27, 2016, an offence was lodged at the Etapalli police station in Gadchiroli district.
A court in Gadchiroli has rejected the bail application filed by lawyer Surendra Gadling in connection with an incident of arson in December 2016.
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Being inspired by Marxism is not enough to incriminate me, Arun Ferreira tells Bombay high court

24/09/2019 Maya

Hindustan Times / by KAY Dodhiya

Arguments in the bail application of lawyer and human rights activist Arun Ferreira concluded on Monday in the Bombay high court (HC). Ferreira, along with civil rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj and activist Vernon Gonsalves, is in jail for their alleged involvement in the 2017 Elgar Parishad conclave, which purportedly led to the Bhima-Koregaon violence on January 1, 2018.
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No incriminating evidence against me, Arun Ferreira tells Bombay HC

21/09/2019 Maya

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Ferreira’s lawyer, advocate Sudeep Pasbola, told the court that he was arrested only because of his acquaintance with co-accused Surendra Gadling, and for being a member of the Indian Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL).
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Evidence not enough to implicate Sudha Bharadwaj: Defence

20/09/2019 Maya

Solidarity Programme (Aug 28, 2019)

The Asian Age / by The Asian Age

A single bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal was hearing the bail application filed by co-accused Vernon Gonsalves and Bharadwaj.
Mumbai: Bhima-Koregaon violence accused Sudha Bharadwaj’s counsel on Thursday argued before the court that six documents and one witness were not enough to accuse her of terrorist activities.
He contended that since she had been in jail for one year, she should be released on bail.
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Bombay HC tells trial court to hear bail pleas of 6 accused in 2 month

19/09/2019 Maya

Times of India / by TNN

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the Pune special trial UAPA court to hear the bail applications of Rona Wilson and five other accused in the Elgar Parishad case within two months.
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Maharashtra government files caveat in Bhima Koregaon case

17/09/2019 Maya

The New Indian Express / by By IANS

A caveat means that the party urge the court to not pass any order without hearing it.
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday filed a caveat in the Supreme Court anticipating Gautam Navlakha’s appeal against the Bombay High Court’s refusal to quash an FIR filed against him by the state police in the Bhima Koregoan case.
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Special court rejects plea challenging its jurisdiction on bail for 9 accused

13/09/2019 Rani

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

PUNE: Special Judge Ravindra M Pande, on Friday, rejected the plea of nine accused arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case and alleged Maoist links, challenging the special court’s jurisdiction to take direct cognisance of the offence and to deny them bail.
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Bombay HC Dismisses Gautam Navlakha’s Petition for Quashing FIR

13/09/2019 Maya

Livelaw / by Nitish Kashyap

The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a writ petition filed by human rights activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha seeking quashing of an FIR registered against him by Pune police alleging his involvement in inciting the violence at Koregaon Bhima in Pune on January 1, 2018. The Court observed that there was prima facie material against the 65-year-old referring to the document submitted in a sealed envelope by Additional Public Prosecutor Aruna Pai. The said document allegedly contained additional material against Navlakha.
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