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Bhima-Koregaon Inquiry Commission: No sight of final report after 21 months

Bhima-Koregaon Inquiry Commission: No sight of final report after 21 months

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Pic: Solidarity banner, 2018

Hindustan Times / by Shalaka Shinde

Last extension ended on Nov 9; current extension to end in Feb 2020.
After 21 months and four extensions, the two-member Bhima Koregaon Inquiry Commission set up by the previous Devendra Fadnavis Government is nowhere close to submitting its findings into the causes of the caste riots that shook up Maharashtra in January 2018.
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If you are in a university and oppose state policy, you can be targeted: Hany Babu, DU professor

If you are in a university and oppose state policy, you can be targeted: Hany Babu, DU professor

The Caravan / by Shaheen Ahmed & Maya Palit

In the early hours of 10 September 2019, a team of police officials, including personnel from the Pune Police, turned up at the doorstep of Hany Babu MT, an associate professor in the University of Delhi’s English department. … The police informed Babu that the search was conducted in connection with the Elgar Parishad and Bhima Koregaon case. …
Shaheen Ahmed and Maya Palit, the multimedia and books editors at The Caravan, respectively, spoke to Babu about the raid at his house and its aftermath.
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Who is Hany Babu?

Who is Hany Babu?

Hany Babu: An epitome of intellectual activism

13/08/2020

MAKTOOB / by Farah Rafeeq

… Hany Babu, an anti-caste activist and an Associate Professor at the Department of English, at the University of Delhi, is a vocal advocate of Dalit rights and the Reservation Policy. He is the 12th person to be arrested in the Elgar Parishad violence. Hany had repeatedly denied any connection to the case.
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Hany Babu: “If you are in a university and oppose state policy, you can be targeted”

29/11/2020

Caravan Magazine / by Shaheen Ahmed & Maya Palit

In the early hours of 10 September 2019, a team of police officials … turned up at the doorstep of Hany Babu MT … raided his apartment in Noida. The Caravan spoke to Babu about the raid at his house and its aftermath. They also discussed his participation in anti-caste movements and in a committee for the defence of the incarcerated professor GN Saibaba.
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Prosecution gives cloned copies of ‘seized electronic data’ to three accused

Prosecution gives cloned copies of ‘seized electronic data’ to three accused

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Police have so far booked 23 people and arrested nine persons in connection with the case; all the arrested accused are activists and lawyers.
The nine activists and lawyers arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case were produced before a special court in Pune on Wednesday and three of them were given cloned copies of the data purportedly recovered from the electronic devices seized by the investigators from the accused.
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Cloned copies of seized electronic evidence handed to 3 Elgar Parishad accused

Cloned copies of seized electronic evidence handed to 3 Elgar Parishad accused

Hindustan Times / by Shalaka Shinde

PUNE: Voluminous electronic evidence seized by Pune police from the possession of the accused in the Elgar Parishad case was handed over to two of the accused in a Pune court on Wednesday. Two hard disks – one of 8 terabyte and one of 2 terabyte – were given to accused Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling in the court of Additional Sessions Judge SR Navander.
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Amit Shah asks CRPF to take ‘effective action’ against urban Naxals, facilitators

Amit Shah asks CRPF to take ‘effective action’ against urban Naxals, facilitators

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

Union home minister Amit Shah, on his maiden visit to the CRPF headquarters on Friday, asked the force to carry out an effective and decisive campaign against left wing extremism (LWE) in the next six months while stressing that “action needs to be taken against urban Naxals and their facilitators”.
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Amnesty India raided by CBI in Bengaluru, says there is a ‘pattern of harassment’

Amnesty India raided by CBI in Bengaluru, says there is a ‘pattern of harassment’


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Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

The CBI raid comes a year after the Enforcement Directorate had carried out investigations into charges that the rights group had attempted to bypass the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act by floating a commercial entity, Amnesty International India Pvt Ltd.
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Bombay HC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Gautam Navlakha Till Dec 2

Bombay HC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Gautam Navlakha Till Dec 2

LiveLaw / by Nitish Kashyap

The Bombay High Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to journalist and activist Gautam Navlakha, accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, who has been seeking anticipatory bail ever since the Supreme Court refused to extend the interim protection from arrest granted to him earlier and asked him to seek relief before the Sessions Court.
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Activist denied interim protection from arrest

Activist denied interim protection from arrest


Pic: Arun Ferreira

The Asian Age / by The Asian Age

The court said it would consider granting interim relief by way of protection from arrest to Navlakha on Friday.
Mumbai: The Bombay high court Thursday refused to grant immediate protection from arrest to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha, who had moved the court seeking anticipatory bail.
The court said it would consider granting interim relief by way of protection from arrest to Navlakha on Friday.
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