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Sudha Bharadwaj Denied Basic Right of Phone Calls in Jail / Interview with Maaysha

Sudha Bharadwaj Denied Basic Right of Phone Calls in Jail / Interview with Maaysha


Sudha Bharadwaj, pic: karinscheidegger.ch

The Wire / by Sukanya Shantha

Mumbai: Maaysha saw her mother, Sudha Bharadwaj, last on February 22. It was a day after Maaysha’s birthday; she turned 23 this year. In the mulaqaat (meeting) at Yerwada prison in Pune, Bharadwaj – an academic and human rights activist – was barely given five minutes to talk to her daughter who had travelled from Delhi just for this meeting.
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MAASHA FEELS PM NARENDRA MODI WON´T LISTEN TO HER PRAYERS OF RELEASING HER INNOCENT MOTHER

06/07/2020


Maaysha and Sudha Bharadwaj

News 21 / by Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

In a lengthy telephonic interview with Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra, Special Correspondent of TheNews21, Maaysha describes her pain and struggle within and outside the system, her process of learning to cope with the situation in the entire two-year journey minus mother.
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SC Sets Aside Delhi HC Order Calling For NIA Records Of Gautam Navlakha’s Transfer

SC Sets Aside Delhi HC Order Calling For NIA Records Of Gautam Navlakha’s Transfer

Livelaw / by Radhika Roy

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the May 27 order passed by the Delhi High Court which had directed the National Investigation Agency to produce the records pertaining to the production warrant issued for the transfer of Gautam Navlakha from Delhi to Mumbai.
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SC SETS ASIDE DELHI HC ORDER CALLING FOR NAVLAKHA´S RECORDS, EXPUNGES REMARKS AGAINST NIA

National Herald / by National Herald Web Desk

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the order passed by the Delhi High Court calling for an affidavit from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) over Gautam Navlakha’s shift from Delhi to Mumbai. The court also directed that the remarks made by the Delhi High Court against the NIA be expunged from the order, legal news website BarandBench.com has reported.
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With no new evidence, NIA relies on Pune police case to oppose bail to Bhima-Koregaon accused

With no new evidence, NIA relies on Pune police case to oppose bail to Bhima-Koregaon accused

The Print / by Bhardra Sinha

NIA affidavits opposing the bail petitions of rights activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao and Shoma Sen had content similar to Pune Police’s findings in 2018 & 2019.
New Delhi: Six months after the National Investigative Agency (NIA) took over the probe in the Bhima-Koregaon violence, it does not seem to have made much headway in its investigation
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No interim bail for Sen, court says suffering from ‘some diseases’ not ground for release

No interim bail for Sen, court says suffering from ‘some diseases’ not ground for release

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Sen, lodged in Byculla Women’s Jail, had filed an interim bail plea on medical grounds stating that she has a history of hypertension, osteoarthritis and other ailments which make her vulnerable to coronavirus.
In the detailed order rejecting interim bail to 62-year-old academic Shoma Sen a special court on Friday said the mere fact that she is suffering from “some diseases” cannot be a ground for release on interim bail.
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+++ Shoma Sen may now proceed to Bombay High Court +++

NIA opposes Sudha Bharadwaj´s bail plea [read NIA reply]

NIA opposes Sudha Bharadwaj´s bail plea [read NIA reply]

The Leaflet / by The Leaflet

The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has filed an affidavit challenging the bail application filed by lawyer and former professor Sudha Bharadwaj in the Elgaar Parishad case, at the Bombay High Court. It argues that she is “taking undue benefit” of the Covid-19 pandemic in seeking interim bail on medical grounds.
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NIA OPPOSES INTERIM BAIL SOUGHT BY SUDHA BHARADWAJ ON MEDIACL GROUNDS

01/07/2020

LiveLaw / by Nitish Kashyap

The National Investigation Agency filed an affidavit before the Bombay High Court on Friday, June 26, opposing the bail plea of advocate and activist Sudha Bharadwaj contending that the accused is trying to take undue advantage of the current situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic and seeking bail on medical grounds.
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ON BHARADWAJ´S BAIL PLEA, NIA SAID – TAKING UNDUE BENEFIT OF PANDEMIC

01/07/2020

The Indian Express/ by Express News Service

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) last week opposed the bail application of lawyer and former professor Sudha Bharadwaj, arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case, before the special NIA court stating that she is “taking undue benefit” of the Covid-19 pandemic in seeking interim bail on medical grounds … The matter was listed on Tuesday but did not come up for hearing.
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Revolutionary Writer Varavara Rao Health Condition Turns Critical In Taloja Prison

Revolutionary Writer Varavara Rao Health Condition Turns Critical In Taloja Prison

Sakshi Post / by Sakshi Post

HYDERABAD: Telangana’s revolutionary writer and the leader of the Revolutionary Writers’ Association Varavara Rao (79) health condition turns critical, officials of Taloja prison informed his wife P. Hemalata Rao over a call on his health condition.
Maharashtra’s Taloja Prison officials informed that he is being treated at the hospital.
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Another Birthday In Jail For Youngest Bhima-Koregaon Accused

Another Birthday In Jail For Youngest Bhima-Koregaon Accused

Article 14 / by Chitrangada Choudhury

Adivasi rights defender, a former fellow of a prestigious prime ministerial programme, and son of a police official, Mahesh Raut is the youngest of the ‘Bhima-Koregaon 11’, accused of spreading Maoist ideology and encouraging ‘unlawful activities’. He’s been in jail without trial for two years.
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When Jail, not Bail, rules in a Pandemic

When Jail, not Bail, rules in a Pandemic

The Lefaflet / by Nilima Dutta & Susan Abraham

The pandemic is worse showcased in the treatment meted to undertrials in our prisons. Despite guidelines directing granting of bail to undertrials with medical conditions and seniority in age, the courts have refused to grant bail to the accused in Bhima Koregaon activists. The authors here note the glaring blindness in the orders of the court denying bail, the dangers to Mr Varavara Rao and Ms Shoma Sen’s health in prison, and the blatant disregard for established principles of law.
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Prisoners ‘dumped’ at quarantine facility: Nearly 300 Taloja jail inmates

Prisoners ‘dumped’ at quarantine facility: Nearly 300 Taloja jail inmates


Drawing by Arun Ferreira

Mumbai Mirror / by harmeen Hakim & Shruti Ganapatye

Prisoners and rights activists say decongestion exercise an eyewash.
“We’re living like animals here.” Khyamuddin Sayyed minced no word in the letter he sent his lawyer, Amrish Salunkhe, on June 14 from his temporary prison in a Kharghar school.
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No Headway in Decongestion of Maharashtra Prisons, Despite SC Directive

No Headway in Decongestion of Maharashtra Prisons, Despite SC Directive


Drawing by Arun Ferreira

Newsclick / by MN Parth

Mumbai: On March 23, the Supreme Court of India asked the state governments to decongest prisons in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus inside jail premises. The Maharashtra government, led by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, subsequently constituted a high-power committee (HPC) to decide on the prisoners to be released. However, the decongestion process in Maharashtra seems to be going nowhere.
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1,414 INMATES ABOVE THE AGE OF 60, STATE TELLS HC

The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal

The State government has informed the Bombay High Court that as of Friday, 1,414 inmates lodged in prisons across the State are above the age of 60, while 425 of them have co-morbidities.
Advocate General (AG) Ashutosh Kumbhakoni told a Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M.S. Karnik that as on May 11, there were 1,340 inmates above 60 years, and as of June 26, the number was 1,414. The court expressed surprised over the numbers, to which the AG replied crime rate has not decreased.
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