Free Press Journal / by Bhavna Uchil
Social activists Varavara Rao and Shoma Sen, on Friday, filed pleas seeking temporary bail before a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court.
Read more
The Hindu / by Gautam S. Mengle and Sonam Saigal
One positive at Byculla women’s jail.
As many as 81 more inmates at the Arthur Road Central Jail tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the number of cases among prisoners lodged there to 158. A prisoner at the women’s prison in Byculla has also tested positive.
Read more
09/04/2020
Mumbai Mirror / by Somendra Sharma and David Delima
… Families of prisoners and undertrials in jails across the city made frantic calls to their lawyers on Friday morning, after hearing the news that 103 people lodged at Arthur Road jail had tested positive for Covid-19 …
“I have not spoken to my father properly since February, when I last saw him in court. I don’t know if he is safe as there as been zero communication from the authorities. We have no way of getting in touch with any official,” said Sagar Gonsalves, son of incarcerated activist Vernon Gonsalves.
Read more
07/04/2020
The Wire / by Sukanya Shantha
The Maharashtra home department had promised to release over 11,000 prisoners but so far fewer than 7,000 have been released as the health crisis rages.
Mumbai: The delay in the process of decongesting Maharashtra’s prisons has already led to the first major outbreak of COVID-19 in Mumbai’s Arthur Road central prison.
Read more
The Wire / by Sukanya Shantha
With a woman inmate testing positive for coronavirus at Byculla prison, a look at the rise in cases in Maharashtra’s overcrowded state prisons.
Mumbai: Contrary to the claims made by the Maharashtra home and prisons department that utmost care has been taken to save prisons from COVID-19 outbreak, cases of infection have been on the rise in state prisons.
Read more
Indiatoday / by Saurabh Vaktania
A woman has tested positive for novel coronavirus in Byculla women’s jail in Mumbai. The patient, a 54-year-old inmate, tested positive on Saturday.
A 54-year-old inmate of the Byculla women’s jail tested positive for novel coronavirus, officials said on Sunday. The new case of coronavirus from the central Mumbai jail comes two days after a doctor attached to it tested positive for Covid-19.
Read more
Hindustan Times / by Charul Shah
The special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Friday extended judicial custody of activist Dr Anand Teltumbde, who was arrested in connection with Elgar Parishad case, till May 22. The court has also asked the prison authorities to submit a report on the medical treatment given to him by May 15.
Read more
Newsclick / by Subhash Gatade
The Supreme Court also wants to reduce the Covid-19 risks posed by overcrowded jails, but there is little progress so far.
Read more
The Quint / by People’s Union for Democratcic Rights
PUDR expresses apprehensions over the health status of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha who surrendered before the NIA in Mumbai and Delhi respectively on 14 April 2020. Both are implicated in the Bhima Koregaon case of January 2018 in which eleven human rights defenders have been arrested.
Read more
Hindustan Times / by Neeraj Chauhan
The probe by NIA also focuses on student leaders in various universities and non-government organizations that extended support to the activists.
… the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has started looking at whether the 11 activists arrested in the case were involved in raising funds (for anti-national activities), brainwashing educated youth in urban centres, made international visits to get support from different organizations abroad, launched misinformation campaigns against the government, and met with overground Maoist leaders, two officials familiar with development told HT.
Read more
Live Law / by Nitish Kahyap
A Special court in Mumbai on Saturday rejected the bail application filed by academician and scholar Anand Teltumbde and remanded him to judicial custody till May 8. The 70-year-old Teltumbde is accused of having Maoist links and inciting the caste based violence which took place on January 1, 2018, in relation to the Bhima Koregaon incident.
Read more
27/04/2020
The Indian Express / by Sadaf Modak
Teltumbde through his lawyers had moved a plea seeking temporary citing the Covid-19 outbreak and his susceptibility to it due to his health condition. The NIA, however, opposed the plea stating that the offence was serious.
Read more
25/04/2020
Free Press Journal / by Bhavna Uchil
A special court in the city rejected the temporary bail plea on medical grounds filed by academic and activist Anand Teltumbde accused in the Elgar Parishad – Bhima Koregaon case and sent him to judicial custody to Taloja jail.
Read more
By Sagar Abraham-Gonsalves / Documented by Mumbai Rises To Save Democracy
22. April
It is my father’s birthday today. He turns 63. Due to the brutality of our government and the failure of our judiciary he will be spending his birthday in a prison cell. At the time of a serious global pandemic when he falls in the category of people most vulnerable he will be spending his birthday in an overcrowded prison with no adequate health facilities.
Today I thought of sharing a about how he has been spending his time in the the past year and a half in Yerwada prison, Pune.
Read more
The Leaflet / by Kritika A
The Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on April 18 extended police custody of Professor Anand Teltumbde for 7 more days. Both, Professor Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha have been arrested in what is now famously being referred to as the Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case.
Read more
Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff
The agency told the court that it had yet to complete the investigation, and hence custody should be extended by seven days.
A special court in Mumbai on Saturday extended activist Anand Teltumbde’s custody with the National Investigation Agency till April 25 in the Elgar Parishad case, PTI reported.
Read more