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Sudha Bharadwaj’s Counsel Questions Admissibility Of Letters That Allegedly Incriminate Her

Sudha Bharadwaj’s Counsel Questions Admissibility Of Letters That Allegedly Incriminate Her


Sudha Bharadwaj

Live Law / by Nitish Kashap

Before the bench of Justice S V Kotwal of Bombay High Court, Dr.Yug Mohit Chaudhary began his submissions on Friday.
Appearing for Sudha Bharadwaj, a human rights lawyer and trade unionist who has been in jail for over a year, Dr.Chaudhary submitted that his client’s laptop, pen drive, mobile phone and hard drive were seized by the police but they did not find anything, hence they are not relying upon any any document recovered from me, Chaudhary argued.
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Bombay HC Expresses Displeasure Over Remarks Wrongly Attributed To Judge

Bombay HC Expresses Displeasure Over Remarks Wrongly Attributed To Judge

Livelaw.in / by Nitish Kashyap

On Day 3 of the daily hearings in bail application filed by accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence Senior Advocate Mihir Desai concluded his submissions on Thursday seeking bail for 61-year-old academic Vernon Gonsalves accused under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
When the hearing began, Dr. Yug Mohit Chaudhary, appearing for Sudha Bharadwaj referred to the reports from various media outlets and said the book seized from Vernon Gonsalves’s home was ‘War and Peace in Junglemahal’ by Biswajit Roy not Tolstoy.
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Bombay HC Asks Gonsalves To Explain Why He Had Certain Books And CDs With Him

Bombay HC Asks Gonsalves To Explain Why He Had Certain Books And CDs With Him

Livelaw.in / by Nitish Kashyap

“Nature of the books and CDs suggest you are a part of a banned organisation, why did you have these books at home?” Justice Kotwal asked
On the second day of bail plea hearings of three accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj and Arun Ferreira, Pune police submitted before the Bombay High Court that by far nothing incriminating had been found against Vernon Gonsalves in the material recovered from his house.
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No Material Against Vernon Gonsalves; Sr. Adv Mihir Desai Tells Bombay HC In Bail Hearing

No Material Against Vernon Gonsalves; Sr. Adv Mihir Desai Tells Bombay HC In Bail Hearing

Livelaw.in / by Nitish Kashyap

Senior Advocate Mihir Desai submitted before the Bombay High Court on Tuesday that the police had no evidence against his client former academic Vernon Gonsalves to prove that he was involved in inciting the violence that took place at Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018.
Justice SV Kotwal started hearing the bail applications filed by Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj and Arun Ferreira on Tuesday and the said pleas will be heard on a daily basis.
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Haryana Police Brutally Tortured Nearly 50% of Jail Inmates, Finds Survey

Haryana Police Brutally Tortured Nearly 50% of Jail Inmates, Finds Survey

Trigger warning: The article contains graphic descriptions of physical and sexual torture which might be triggering to survivors.

The Wire / by Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Electric shocks, bricks hung from private parts, threatened with rape, sexually assaulted, hung naked, hung upside down — these are some of the methods that Haryana Police has been undertaking in dealing with prisoners, both men and women, a study has revealed.
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Koregaon Bhima Inquiry Commission plans to examine Dhawale and Gadling in Yerwada jail

Koregaon Bhima Inquiry Commission plans to examine Dhawale and Gadling in Yerwada jail

The Indian Express / by Chandan Haygunde

Dhawale and Gadling had earlier filed affidavits before the Commission of Inquiry, which is looking into the sequence of events that led to the violence in Koregaon Bhima on January 1 last year, in which one person died and several others were injured.
The Commission of Inquiry intends to examine Sudhir Dhawale and Surendra Gadling, two of the nine arrested accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, in the first week of September. Both Dhawale, an activist, and Gadling, a lawyer, are currently lodged in Yerwada Central Prison.
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Bombay HC Allows Sudha Bharadwaj To Attend Her Father’s Post-Funeral Rituals

Bombay HC Allows Sudha Bharadwaj To Attend Her Father’s Post-Funeral Rituals

Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap

Lawyer and civil rights activist Sudha Bharadwaj has been granted temporary bail by the Bombay High Court to attend her father’s post-funeral rituals and rites at Bangalore for a couple of days. Bharadwaj has been in Pune’s Yerwada Central Jail since last October in relation to allegations for inciting the caste-based violence that took place at Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018.
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Activist Sudha Bharadwaj Out On Bail To Attend Late Father’s Final Rites

She The People / by Poorvi Gupta

The Bombay High Court permitted civil rights activist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj to visit her family in Bengaluru to attend post-funeral rites after her father’s death. Bharadwaj was arrested by Pune Police about a year ago for alleged links with Maoists in Elgar Parishad- Bhima Koregaon case.
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Dissecting the ‘Maoist document’ about Gautam Navlakha

Dissecting the ‘Maoist document’ about Gautam Navlakha

Newslaundry / by Prateek Goyal

Rather than establish Navlakha’s ‘connections’ with Hizbul Mujahideen, the document highlights his government connections and is vehemently critical of the Maoist party and movement.
On July 24, the Pune police told the Mumbai High Court that activist Gautam Navlakha had connections with militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. Sections of the media were quick to brand him a “terrorist” in primetime shows and reports. Tagging these as “exclusive” reports, the stories were based solely on what the police said and images of a “documents” linking Navlakha with Hizbul.
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Sudha Bharadwaj urges court to stop harassment of her visitors

Sudha Bharadwaj urges court to stop harassment of her visitors


pic: Sudha Bharadwaj addressing a program in Chhattisgarh (CMM archive)

Hindustan Times / by Shalaka Shinde

Pune: A lawyer and civil rights activist, Sudha Bhardwaj was arrested from her house in Faridabad in August 2018 on charges of being an ‘urban Maoist’.
Sudha Bhardwaj, 58, one of the nine people arrested in the Elgar Parishad case, appealed to a court here on Monday to direct the police to stop “harassing” her visitors.
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Front Line Defenders expresses concern on “Imminent arrest” of Fr. Stan Swamy and other Jharkhand activists

Front Line Defenders expresses concern on “Imminent arrest” of Fr. Stan Swamy and other Jharkhand activists

Sabrang India / by Sabrang India

On Tuesday, while hearing a petition filed by human rights defender, Jharkhand activist and a Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy, the Ranchi High Court refused to grant him and others protection from arrest and scheduled the next hearing for August 7.
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