The Indian Express / by Express News Service
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to provide copies of the latest medical reports of Sudha Bharadwaj, Anand Teltumbde and Vernon Gonsalves, accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, to their families, lawyers and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) before the next hearing on August 28…
The next hearing of the case will be on Friday.
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Mumbai Mirror / by Mumbai Mirror
Prison officials submitted a “corrected” medical report of Dr Anand Teltumbde, in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, 21 days after it was found that vitals in his document were identical to co-accused Mahesh Raut’s report. The two have a 37-year age gap.
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Countercurrents / by friends and family of Sudha Bharadwaj
Keeping under trials in prison for two years deliberately stalling bail opportunities, with no effort for beginning the trial instead exposing them to serious health condition is a gross violation of rights of prisoners. This is further heightened in times of a global pandemic given the crowded situation in prisons…
Friends and family members of Sudha Bharadwaj gathered online Sunday to share series of serious concern over Sudha Bharadwaj’s health condition.
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News Click / by Shoili Kanungo
When all relations are defined by oppression and subjugation, and human relationships vanish, the oppressor fears the future.
… Captive Imagination is Varavara Rao´s prison journal from the 1980´s. It is a manual of life infused with love, longing, and the power of dreams and imagination – which he says are the limbs that support every prisoner and cannot be taken away.
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Hindustan Times / by K A Y Dodhia
The report further states that depending on Rao’s condition and as per hospital protocols, they would permit Rao’s family to speak to him over video call.
The Bombay high court (HC) has highlighted that a part of the medical report of Telegu poet P Varavara Rao from Nanavati Hospital, where he was admitted for treatment Covid-19 and other comorbidities, has stated that though Rao’s electrolyte levels have normalised, his neurological status is unstable as he is still disoriented in his talks.
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21/08/2020
Deccan Herald / by Shemin Joy, DHNS
The National Human Rights (NHRC) on Friday decided to refer the medical report of jailed poet-activist Varavara Rao, who is admitted to a Mumbai hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, submitted by the Maharashtra government to its own expert panel.
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Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap
The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Nanavati hospital authorities to again allow Varavara Rao’s family to interact with him via video call after the family expressed anxiety for not receiving any updates on his health by hospital authorities…
Thereafter, Sudha Bharadwaj’s appeal against rejection of bail came up before the same bench.
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18/08/2020
The Quint / by Asmita Nandy
After a video call, Varavara Rao’s family said his health was improving but he remained physically weak.
Jailed poet and activist Varavara Rao’s family said the 80-year-old, who was admitted to Mumbai’s Nanavati hospital after testing positive for COVID-19 on 16 July, continued to remain physically weak.
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18/08/2020
Hindustan Times / by K A Y Dohiya
The Bombay high court (HC) on Monday directed the state to allow activist and poet P Varavara Rao contact his family using video calls, while following hospital protocol. HC also directed court officials to provide Rao’s family and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) copies of Rao’s medical report, which was submitted to the court last week. The next hearing will be held after two weeks …
In another hearing for an appeal filed by lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj, advocate Ragini Ahuja appealed against a special court’s decision to deny Bharadwaj interim bail … The court has also sought Bharadwaj’s latest medical report. The matter will be heard after two weeks.
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Frontline / by Divya Trivedi
Overcrowded prisons across India have become fertile breeding grounds for the coronavirus.
As early as May, the International Legal Foundation, which has two decades of experience in protecting detainees impacted by infectious diseases, warned that it was not a question of if, but when, COVID-19 would overwhelm incarceration facilities.
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The Print / by pti
Mumbai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday opposed the bail plea of activist Sudha Bharadwaj … in the Bombay High Court saying her ailments were not of serious nature … The HC, however, pointed out that a bench led by Chief Justice Dipankar Datta had presided over a PIL filed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and had sent detailed guidelines for prison authorities across the state to ensure the safety of inmates in light of COVID-19 … the bench directed the Maharashtra government to submit Bharadwaj’s latest health report and an affidavit within a week clarifying how it proposed to implement safety guidelines and the court’s PUCL judgement in the Byculla prison to protect inmates.
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Free Press Journal / by Bhavna Uchil
Delhi University’s Hindu College professor PK Vijayan has said that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) questioned him last Friday regarding his role in the Saibaba Defence Committee.
Prof Vijayan who teaches English in the institution said he is not at liberty to speak on what happened during the questioning, as he has been advised by his advocates not to do so but described the session ‘cordial’ and ‘civil’. “We (he and Prof. Rakesh Ranjan) were kept waiting for about 5-6 hours and questioned for the rest,” he said.
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The Telegraph / by Special Correspondent
Condemnation of ‘RSS-BJP regime’s increasing use of repressive laws and manipulation of investigation and judicial processes’
Two teachers of colleges under Delhi University were questioned by the National Investigation Agency on Friday in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence, days after the NIA acted against two other teachers of DU.
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15/08/2020
Free Press Journal / by Bhavna Uchil
Say it is ‘legalized harassment’ in the garb of ‘investigation’
Students of economics professor Rakesh Ranjan, summoned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Bhima Koregaon case have strongly condemned the summons.
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