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Supreme Court To Hear Surendra Gadling’s Bail Plea In Gadchiroli Arson Case On September 24

Supreme Court To Hear Surendra Gadling’s Bail Plea In Gadchiroli Arson Case On September 24

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Live Law / by Amisha Shrivastava

Senior Advocate Anand Grover on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the case against Dalit rights activist and advocate Surendra Gadling in the 2016 Gadchiroli Surajgad arson incident was “completely false” and based only on electronic evidence illegally seized in the Bhima Koregaon case.
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The Court adjourned the matter to next Wednesday (September 24) after briefly hearing Grover and Additional Solicitor General SV Raju.
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thread by Live Law /  @LiveLawIndia (Sep 17):

#SupremeCourt hears bail plea of lawyer Surendra Gadling, accused under UAPA in the 2016 Gadchiroli arson case.
Bench: Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Vijay Bishnoi.
Senior Advocate Anand Grover: he was not named in the FIR. He was arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case. In that case, under procedure unknown to law say that they have found electronic evidence implicating him in this case.
J Maheshwari: What is the material against him?
Grover: Nothing except the evidence found in the other case. The procedure in that case to collect evidence totally contrary to law. And then they say that there is evidence in those electronic devices that you are a member of the maoist party.
Grover: evidence that they have collected, he was espousing that cause to fight it legally. There was no search warrant.
J Maheshwari to ASG SV Raju: he is saying that search Warren application was submitted but it was not permitted by the court still you made a search.
Raju: there is no requirement for obtaining search warrant in the course of investigation. It is right of the investigating officer to search any place for the purpose of finding evidence, those are inherent powers of the IO.
Raju: I will point out from the CrPC. Even assuming that the search was illegal the court has taken a view that material recovered can be admissible as evidence. Even if search is illegal material collected is not washed of. It can be relied upon and conviction can be based on it
J Maheshwari: If we continue for 15 minutes you will finish it?
Raju: It will take time.
Court: List on next Wednesday.

Also read:
▪ 6 yrs, no charges framed – Surendra Gadling stuck in trial limbo in 2016 Surajgarh arson case (The Print / Sep 2025)
▪ SC to hear bail plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Surendra Gadling on Sep 17 (Hindustan Times / Sep 2025)
▪ In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict (Frontline / Aug 2025)
▪ How Long is Too Long? – On the Maximum Period that an Undertrial Prisoner can be Detained (Constitutional Law and Philosophy | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)
▪ Surendra Gadling’s Computer Was Attacked, Incriminating Documents Planted: Arsenal Consulting (The Wire / July 2021)

Supreme Court to Hear Jyoti Jagtap’s Bail Plea in October

Supreme Court to Hear Jyoti Jagtap’s Bail Plea in October

SC Grants Interim Bail To Mahesh Raut On Medical Grounds For Six Weeks, Jyoti Jagtap’s Bail Plea To Be Heard In October

16/09/2025

The Commune / by The Commune

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (16 September 2025) granted interim bail on medical grounds for a period of six weeks to Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad case accused Mahesh Raut, who has been under custody since June 2018 after being arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, over alleged Maoist links.
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The plea of co-accused Jyoti Jagtap was also mentioned during the hearing by Senior Advocate Aparna Bhat, who submitted that the case has been pending for the last six to seven years. The bench said it will take up Jagtap’s case in October.
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Bail Plea of Bhima Koregaon Accused Jyoti Jagtap in October

16/09/2025

Law Beat / by Sukriti Mishra

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will hear in October the bail plea of Jyoti Jagtap, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, who has been incarcerated for almost seven years under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The Bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing Jagtap’s petition when Senior Advocate Aparna Bhat, appearing on her behalf, urged the Court to consider the long period of incarceration without trial.
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Also read:
▪ SC to hear bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap on Sep 8 (Hindustan Times / Sep 2025)
▪ Supreme Court adjourns bail pleas of Surendra Gadling and Jyoti Jagtap (Hindustan Times / Mar 2025)
▪ SC adjourns bail pleas of Surendra Gadling, Jyoti Jagtap in Bhima Koregaon case (Scroll.in / Feb 2025)
▪ How Kabir Kala Manch, the anti-caste cultural troupe, challenges the hierarchical social order (Scroll.in / Jul 2024)
▪ Inconsistencies in Bail Orders Mean Individual Liberty Is the Outcome of Judicial Lottery (The Wire / Oct 2022)

Supreme Court grants six-week interim medical bail to Mahesh Raut

Supreme Court grants six-week interim medical bail to Mahesh Raut

Mahesh Raut

Supreme Court grants six-week interim medical bail to Bhima Koregaon accused Mahesh Raut

17/09/2025

Sabrangindia / by Sabrangindia

Raut, in jail since 2018 under UAPA, secures interim relief for rheumatoid arthritis treatment; despite being granted regular bail by Bombay High Court in 2023, he remains in custody as the order has been under Supreme Court stay for two years
The Supreme Court on Monday, September 16, 2025, granted six weeks’ interim medical bail to Mahesh Raut, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad case, who has been in custody since his arrest in June 2018 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA).

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A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma passed the order after Raut moved the Court citing serious health concerns.
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SC Grants Interim Bail To Mahesh Raut On Medical Grounds For Six Weeks, Jyoti Jagtap’s Bail Plea To Be Heard In October

16/09/2025

The Commune / by The Commune

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (16 September 2025) granted interim bail on medical grounds for a period of six weeks to Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad case accused Mahesh Raut, who has been under custody since June 2018 after being arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, over alleged Maoist links.
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Supreme Court Grants Interim Bail To Mahesh Raut On Medical Grounds For 6 Weeks

16/09/2025

Live Law / by Gursimran Kaur Bakshi

The Supreme Court today (September 16) granted interim bail on medical grounds for a period of 6 weeks to Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case accused Mahesh Raut, arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, over alleged Maoist links. He has been in custody since his arrest in June 2018.
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Also read:
▪ Supreme Court To Hear Activist Mahesh Raut’s Bail Plea (Outlook / Sep 2025)
▪ Notes From Inside Taloja Prison (Outlook | by Mahesh Raut | Jun 2025)
▪ Year after being granted bail, Mahesh Raut remains in jail as stay extended (The Indian Express / Sep 2024)
▪ ‘Ominous portents’: Why High Court staying its own bail orders in Bhima Koregaon case is troubling (Scroll.in / Dec 2023)
▪ Bhima Koregaon Case: Mahesh Raut, youngest accused, granted bail by the Bombay HC! (SabrangIndia / Sep 2023)

6 yrs, no charges framed – Surendra Gadling stuck in trial limbo in 2016 Surajgarh arson case

6 yrs, no charges framed – Surendra Gadling stuck in trial limbo in 2016 Surajgarh arson case

Nagpur 2018 | Credits: Scroll.in / pti

The Print / by Ruchi Bhattar

Despite nearly 200 listings in trial court, proceedings haven’t moved beyond preliminary stage. Surendra Gadling was arrested in Surajgarh arson case in January 2019.
Human rights lawyer Surendra Pundalik Gadling has spent more than six-and-a-half years in custody as an undertrial in the 2016 Surajgarh arson case, with the trial still stalled at the stage of framing of charges.
Gadling, also an accused in the Elgar Parishad–Koregaon Bhima case, was granted interim bail last week in this matter by an NIA court in Mumbai to attend the last rites of a family member.
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Video: 6yrs, no charges framed


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Maharasthra human rights lawyer and activist Surnedra Gadling was arrested in Surajgarh arson case in January 2019. Despite nearly 200 listings in trial courts over 4 years, proceedings haven’t moved beyond preliminary stage. He’s also accused in the Bhima Koregaon case. Ruchi Bhattar explains more in this video.
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Also read:
▪ Judiciary ‘turning justice into punishment’: PUCL slams bail denial in UAPA cases (Countercurrents / Sep 2025)
▪ SC to hear bail plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Surendra Gadling on Sep 17 (Hindustan Times / Sep 2025)
▪ In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict (Frontline / Aug 2025)
▪ How Long is Too Long? – On the Maximum Period that an Undertrial Prisoner can be Detained (Constitutional Law and Philosophy | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)
▪ When Push Comes to Shove: Tracking Judicial Recusals and Transfers (The Wire / Apr 2023)
▪ A poet, a lawyer, a professor: These are the five activists held for sparking Bhima Koregaon clashes (Scroll.in / Jun 2018)

Ramesh Gaichor released on temporary bail, jail authority apologises to Bombay HC for delay

Ramesh Gaichor released on temporary bail, jail authority apologises to Bombay HC for delay

Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project

HC slams police, prison authorities for delay in releasing Bhima Koregaon accused

12/09/2025

Hindustan Times / by Karuna Nidhi

The Bombay High Court criticized Maharashtra Police for not releasing anti-caste activist Ramesh Gaichor on temporary bail to visit his ailing father.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday strongly criticised the Maharashtra Police and Prison Authorities for their laxity in failing to release anti-caste activist Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor, 41, arrested in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case.
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Ramesh Gaichor released on temporary bail to meet ailing father, jail authority apologises to Bombay HC for delay

11/09/2025

Indian Express / by Express News Service

The Bombay High Court had pulled up Taloja Prison authorities for not complying with its August 26 order for releasing Ramesh Gaichor on temporary bail. Ramesh Gaichor was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in 2020.
The Taloja Prison authorities on Thursday tendered an unconditional apology before the Bombay High Court for not complying with its August 26 order and submitted that the Elgaar Parishad case accused Ramesh Gaichor was released on a three-day temporary bail on the night of September 10.
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Bombay HC grants extended temporary bail to Elgar Parishad accused

11/09/2025

National Herald / by NH Political Bureau

HC bench comes down heavily on authorities for what it describes as blatant non-compliance with judicial orders
Bombay High Court has extended temporary bail for activist Ramesh Gaichor, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, after prison authorities delayed his earlier release despite court orders. Gaichor was finally released from Taloja jail on Wednesday night, nearly two weeks after being granted three-day bail on humanitarian grounds.
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HC criticises prison authorities for not releasing Ramesh Gaichor despite bail

11/09/2025

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

In August, the Bombay High Court granted activist Ramesh Gaichor bail for three days to meet his ailing father.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the police and prison authorities in Maharashtra for not releasing activist Ramesh Gaichor, who is accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, who was granted three-day temporary bail on August 26 to meet his ailing father, Live Law reported.
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Bombay HC Slams Prison Authorities For Failing To Release Ramesh Gaichor Despite Temporary Bail

10/09/2025

Live Law / by Narsi Benwal

Asking if the State has put ‘humanity’ to rest, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Maharashtra Police and also the Prison Authorities for not releasing Ramesh Gaichor, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad case, who was last month granted a temporary bail of three days to meet his ailing father in Pune.
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Also read:
▪ High Court grants temporary bail to Elgar Parishad accused to meet ailing father (India Today / Aug 2025)
▪ Bail plea of Elgar Parishad case accused to take care of ailing father rejected (India Today / Jul 2025)
▪ Ramesh Gaichor on the Elgar prisoners’ defiance of the neo-Peshwai prison system (The Polis Project | by Ramesh Gaichor | Sep 2024)
▪ Ramesh Gaichor’s parents just want to meet him again before they die (The Polis Project / Jul 2024)

The Public Security Act is unconstitutional and anti-democratic – Protests across Maharashtra

The Public Security Act is unconstitutional and anti-democratic – Protests across Maharashtra

Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic [picture galleries]

10/09/2025

Sabrangindia / by Sabrangindia

Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”
A wave of protests swept across Maharashtra today as opposition parties, civil society organizations, and grassroots groups came together to denounce the recently passed Maharashtra Public Security Bill, branding it a “Public Oppression Bill.” Demonstrations took place in Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur, Solapur, Palghar, Beed, Hingoli, Dhule, Gadchiroli, Gondia, and several other districts, marking one of the largest coordinated state-wide agitations in recent years.
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PSA a bid to criminalise varied organisations: Sudha Bharadwaj

31/08/2025

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

Bharadwaj was among the speakers at a webinar organised by All India Inquilabi Youth and Students Alliance (ALIYSA) and National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) along with senior advocate Mihir Desai and activist Ulka Mahajan
Human rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj said on Saturday that it was a great thing that the civil society in Maharashtra had already begun protesting against the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, passed by the state’s legislative assembly in its recently concluded monsoon session.
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Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, Pre-Emptive Criminalisation And Indefinite Surveillance

22/08/2025

Outlook / by Anand Teltumbde

The MSPSA gives the state-corporate nexus the legal means to suppress participatory democracy under the guise of public security.
On July 10, 2025, the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha passed a revised version of the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act (MSPSA), exactly one year after the original draft was introduced on July 11, 2024, by the Shiv Sena-BJP coalition under Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Initially framed as a response to the perceived threat of “urban Naxalism”, the Bill claimed to address the alleged infiltration of Maoist ideology into urban areas through affiliated organisations offering logistical support and shelter to underground cadres.
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Also read:
▪ Civil society gears up to protest Public Security Bill (Hindustan Times / Sep 2025)
▪ Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, Pre-Emptive Criminalisation And Indefinite Surveillance (Outlook | by Anand Teltumbde | Aug 2025)
▪ New Maharashtra Security Law Open To Abuse, Threatens Rights; Say ‘No’ To It (Deccan Chronicle / Aug 2025)
▪ Insecurity By Law: A Critique of the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill in the Context of India’s Banning Regime (PUDR / Jul 2025)
▪ Maharashtra: Activists, Lawyers Added to ‘Union War Book’, Listed as ‘Enemies of the State’ (The Wire / Jul 2021)

Supreme Court To Hear Activist Mahesh Raut’s Bail Plea On September 15

Supreme Court To Hear Activist Mahesh Raut’s Bail Plea On September 15

Supreme Court To Hear Activist Mahesh Raut’s Bail Plea On September 15

08/09/2025

Outlook / by Outlook News Desk

Raut’s counsel apprised the Court that the accused had rheumatoid arthritis and needed specialised treatment that was not available either in prison.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that the bail plea of Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case accused Mahesh Raut will be heard on September 15. Raut had approached the court for bail on medical grounds.
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SC to hear accused bail plea on medical grounds

08/09/2025

The Indian Express / by pti

The high court allowed Raut’s bail plea but stayed its own order for a week on the request of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear on September 15 the bail plea of Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case accused Mahesh Raut on medical grounds.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing Raut’s petition challenging his incarceration despite being granted bail by the Bombay High Court.
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Also read:
▪ Notes From Inside Taloja Prison (Outlook | by Mahesh Raut | Jun 2025)
▪ Year after being granted bail, Mahesh Raut remains in jail as stay extended (The Indian Express / Sep 2024)
▪ ‘Ominous portents’: Why High Court staying its own bail orders in Bhima Koregaon case is troubling (Scroll.in / Dec 2023)
▪ Bhima Koregaon Case: Mahesh Raut, youngest accused, granted bail by the Bombay HC! (SabrangIndia / Sep 2023)
▪ Gadchiroli’s 300 Gram Sabhas Pass Resolution in Support of Activist Mahesh Raut (The Wire / Oct 2018)
▪ Mining In Gadchiroli – Building A Castle Of Injustices (Countercurrents | by Neema Pathak Broome and Mahesh Raut | June 2017)

Supreme Court to hear bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap and the appeal against Mahesh Raut’s bail

Supreme Court to hear bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap and the appeal against Mahesh Raut’s bail

Hindustan Times / by pti

The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday the bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap who was arrested in 2020 in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma is also likely to hear a petition filed by the National Investigation Agency challenging the bail granted to activist Mahesh Raut.
He was given bail by the Bombay High Court but the order was stayed after the NIA sought stay on the verdict to challenge it before the apex court.
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Also read:
▪ Supreme Court adjourns bail pleas of Surendra Gadling and Jyoti Jagtap (Hindustan Times / Mar 2025)
▪ SC adjourns bail pleas of Surendra Gadling, Jyoti Jagtap in Bhima Koregaon case (Scroll.in / Feb 2025)
▪ Year after being granted bail, Mahesh Raut remains in jail as stay extended (The Indian Express / Sep 2024)
▪ How Kabir Kala Manch, the anti-caste cultural troupe, challenges the hierarchical social order (Scroll.in / Jul 2024)
▪ Bhima Koregaon Case: Mahesh Raut, youngest accused, granted bail by the Bombay HC! (SabrangIndia / Sep 2023)
▪ Kabir Kala Manch: A History of Revolutionary Singing and State Repression (ritimo / April 2022)

NIA court grants interim bail Surendra Gadling to attend family rituals

NIA court grants interim bail Surendra Gadling to attend family rituals

Hindustan Times / by Prateem Rohanekar

Gadling, arrested in 2018 for alleged Maoist links, had sought bail from September 3 to 19 following the death of his sister-in-law Kavita Narendra Gadling on September 1. His counsel argued that his presence was necessary as the family shared close ties, adding that he had earlier honoured all interim bail conditions without misuse
A special NIA court in Mumbai on Wednesday granted temporary bail to Nagpur-based lawyer and activist Surendra Pundlik Gadling, an accused in the Elgar Parishad–Koregaon Bhima case, to attend post-death rituals of his sister-in-law.
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Also read:
▪ SC to hear bail plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Surendra Gadling on Sep 17 (Hindustan Times / Sep 2025)
▪ In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict (Frontline / Aug 2025)

Supreme Court defers Surendra Gadling’s bail once again; 17 adjournments in two years

Supreme Court defers Surendra Gadling’s bail once again; 17 adjournments in two years

Supreme Court defers Surendra Gadling’s bail once again; 17 adjournments in two years

04/09/2025

Bar & Bench / by Ritwik Choudhury

The human rights lawyer has been in custody for over six years without charges being framed in connection with the 2016 Surajgarh arson case.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the bail plea of human rights lawyer and Surajgarh arson accused Surendra Gadling for the 17th time since it was first filed in August 2023 [Surendra Pundalik Gadling vs State of Maharashtra].
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SC to hear bail plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Surendra Gadling on Sep 17

03/09/2025

Hindustan Times / by Abraham Thomas

The decision comes a week after another bench of the top court recused from hearing the matter amid concerns raised by Gadling’s lawyers over the long pendency of the matter since August 2023
The Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed September 17 as the date for hearing the bail plea of Bhima Koregaon violence accused and lawyer Surendra Gadling, a week after another bench of the top court recused from hearing the matter amid concerns raised by his lawyers over the long pendency of the matter since August 2023.
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Supreme Court to hear next week Surendra Gadling’s bail plea

29/08/2025

Law Beat / by Aishwarya Iyer

Gadling had reportedly asked Maoists to oppose the operation of Surjagarh mines and instigated several locals to join the movement.
The Supreme Court today has agreed to list next week the bail plea filed by Surendra Gadling, accused in the Bhima Koregoan Elghar Parishad Violence case of 2018.
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Supreme Court to hear Surendra Galding’s bail plea on September 3

29/08/2025

The New Indian Express / by pti

On August 8, senior advocate Anand Grover mentioned the matter before CJI Gavai for an early hearing, citing his client Gadling’s over six-year-long incarceration.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list on September 3 the hearing on the bail plea of advocate Surendra Gadling, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
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Also read:
▪ Supreme Court Judge Justice MM Sundresh Recuses Himself From Hearing Bail Plea Of Advocate Surendra Gadling (Free Press Journal / Aug 2025)
▪ In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict (Frontline / Aug 2025)
▪ Villagers in Gadchiroli campaign to shut down Surjagarh iron ore mine (Land Conflict Watch / Feb 2017)