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Forum for RTE ‘Disappointed’ by SC Decision on Teltumbde’s Anticipatory Bail

23/03/2020 Maya

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

It also demanded the repeal of the UAPA, which “allows the government to violate the constitutional rights of citizens with impunity”.
New Delhi: The All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) has expressed disappointment over the Supreme Court’s decision to reject anticipatory bail to AIFRTE’s presidium member professor Anand Teltumbde for a case registered against him under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
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Writers and Activists Express Solidarity: Stand with Anand Teltumbde & Gautam Navlakha

22/03/2020 Maya

Documented by kractivist.org

In August 2018, the Pune Police implicated Prof. Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha with other human right activists and lawyers in the now-infamous fabricated Elgar Parishad case. The police presented concocted theories since day one and these theories have not an iota of truth in them. Although the judiciary granted interim protection to Prof. Anand and Gautam, the supreme court on 16th March, 2020 rejected the pre-arrest bail and asked them to surrender by three weeks. …

An ‘Anthem’ for Our Troubled Times

22/03/2020 Maya

Poster by Kabir Kala Manch

The Wire / by Monobina Gupta

… Last Monday, human and civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha reminded us of Cohen’s song. “Do please listen to Leonard Cohen sing the ‘Anthem’ and remember to: Ring the Bell/Which still can ring/Forget your perfect/ Offering/There is a crack/A crack in everything/ That’s how light gets in,” wrote Navlakha in a statement after the Supreme Court turned down the anticipatory bail petitions he had filed along with well-known academic, Anand Teltumbde, in the Bhima Koregaon case.
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AIFRTE: The Impending Arrest of Prof. Anand Teltumbde Is Undemocratic

22/03/2020 Maya

Documented by Counter Currents

All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE) Statement on Supreme Court’s rejection of anticipatory bail to Prof. Anand Teltumbde.
AIFRTE is shocked, outraged and deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court’s rejection of anticipatory bail to its Presidium member Prof. Anand Teltumbde, an IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus, IIT Professor, and currently Senior Professor and Chair, Big Data Analytics at Goa Institute of Management (GIM). Prof Teltumbde is also a noted scholar of caste-class and public policy issues, and a Leading Public Intellectual and Democratic and Educational Rights Activist.
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SFI: Stand With Gautam Navlakha & Anand Teltumbde

19/03/2020 Maya

Statement by Students’ Federation of India (Delhi)

SFI-Delhi stands against the wrongful persecution of Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha and the nine other activists:
Stop State Repression on Academics, Public intellectuals & Activists,
Repeal UAPA & Other Draconian Laws,
Resist The Fascist Regime & Fight Against Fabricated Bhima Koregaon Case,
Release All Arrested Activists in Fabricated B K Case!

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Social organisations express concern over rejecting bail

18/03/2020 Maya

Mumbai Mirror /by Mumbai Mirror

Statement by MRSD on Supreme Court’s rejection of pre-arrest of Anand and Gautam

18/03/2020 Maya

Mumbai Rises To Save Democracy / @MumbaiRises

Statement by Mumbai Rises To Save Democracy on Supreme Court’s rejection of pre-arrest bail plea of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha:

Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy (MRSD) is deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court’s rejection of the plea by Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha seeking anticipatory bail in the cases registered against them in relation to the violence at Bhima Koregaon on 1st January 2018. Their arrest is imminent in next three weeks. Nine other activists and intellectuals who have been accused in this case and charged with sections of the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) have been imprisoned since 2018.
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Gautam Navlakha: Dare I hope to be freed from the burden of yet another conspiracy trial?

16/03/2020 Maya

Pic: Gautam after his release 2018

The Caravan / by Gautam Navlakha

On 16 March 2020, a Supreme Court bench comprising the judges Arun Mishra and Mukeshkumar Rasikbhai Shah rejected the anticipatory bail pleas of civil-rights activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde, in relation to the violence at Bhima Koregaon in January 2018. Navlakha and Teltumbde were booked by the Pune Police under the draconian Unlawaful Activities (Prevention) Act for alleged Maoist links in 2018. The Supreme Court has asked Navlakha and Teltumbde to surrender within three weeks.
Gautam Navlakha released the following statement soon after being denied anticipatory bail:

International Women’s days: Let’s remember Sudha and Shoma

08/03/2020 Maya

Statement by Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy

On the International Women’s days let’s remember human rights activists Sudha Bharadwaj and Shoma Sen who along with 7 others have been behind bars since June-August 2018 in the fake Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case. Let’s strengthen the campaign for their release and demand prosecution of Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide who attacked dalit bahujans at Bhima Koregaon on 1st January 2018.

Who is Sudha Bharadwaj?
Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj is a 2019 honoree of the Harvard Law International Women’s day exhibition and is sitting in a jail cell in Pune. How did these conflicting positions come about?
Sudha spent the first part of her life as an American citizen. In the next 30 years of her life, she worked tirelessly in Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (CMM) as a trade unionist and eventually as a lawyer after the CMM, hamstrung in their legal battles by unscrupulous lawyers, found in her the courage and integrity needed to challenge powerful opponents in the courtrooms.
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Who is Shoma Sen?
A reputed academician, a Dalit and Women’s Rights activist, a teacher and dissenter, Shoma Sen is all of the above and more. Born and raised in Mumbai, she moved to Nagpur with her partner and daughter with a strong resolve to protect and promote democratic rights of the most marginalised people in the society.
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Pic: Raipur, March 8, 2020

Ambedkar Family on Anand Teltumbde: Extremely Concerned For His Life [Read Statement]

29/02/2020 Maya

Newsclick / by Newsclick

In a statement, the family expressed their solidarity with Dr. Anand Teltumbde, saying he was being hounded through the Elgar Parishad case.
The family of Babasaheb Ambedkar has issued a statement expressing concern regarding the “hounding” of Dr. Anand Teltumbde, saying that they are “extremely concerned for his life, and the suffering of his family if he is arrested and incarcerated like others.”
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