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For accused out on bail, Court’s condition to not leave city a further challenge

For accused out on bail, Court’s condition to not leave city a further challenge

The Indian Express / by Sadaf Modak

Accused raise high cost of living, difficulty in finding jobs and houses on rent to restart life
While the bar for granting bail itself is high in stringent anti-terror laws, for several accused released on bail by Mumbai courts, the real ordeal begins after being granted bail- to find a local address to live in the city.
Just last week, Bombay High Court, while granting bail to Elgaar Parishad accused Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawale, directed them not to leave the territorial jurisdiction of the trial court without permission. While Dhawale is a resident of Mumbai, Wilson, whose originally from Kerala, resided in New Delhi before his arrest in 2018.
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Also read:
▪ Out on bail in Elgaar case, activist Navlakha and partner struggle to rent home in Mumbai (The Indian Express / Jul 2024)
▪ Bombay HC allows Varavara Rao to undergo cataract surgery in Hyderabad (The Indian Express / Oct 2023)
▪ Can’t Allow Varavara Rao To Stay In Hyderabad For Three Months For Cataract Treatment, Will Delay Framing of Charges: NIA Court (Scroll.in / Sep 2022)
▪ Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon accused struggle to find house in city (Hindustan Times / Nov 2022)

Neurologists will examine VV Rao / VV Rao tests positive for Covid-19 / Shocking Treatment at JJ Hospital

Neurologists will examine VV Rao / VV Rao tests positive for Covid-19 / Shocking Treatment at JJ Hospital

NEUROLOGISTS CALLED TO EXAMINE 80-YR-OLD POET-ACTIVIST

News 18 / by PTI

Jailed writer and activist Varavara Rao, undergoing treatment at St George Hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, is also suffering from neurological problem and specialist doctors have been called to treat him, hospital officials said on Friday.
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VARAVARA RAO TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

Poet and activist Varavara Rao, who was lodged at Taloja Jail as an undertrial in connection with the Elgar Parishad case, tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday. Rao, 81, is asymptomatic but will be treated with symptomatic drugs. His family has alleged criminal negligence by state authorities.
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SHOCKING TREATMENT OF VARA VARA RAO AT JJ HOSPITAL

15/07/2020

By Human Rights Defenders´ Alert – India

Human Rights Defenders Alert urges NHRC to intervene immediately. VV’s family in Mumbai since yesterday has been horrified to find him in a pathetic & unattended condition at hospital.

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‘Shocked at the arrest of human rights defenders’

‘Shocked at the arrest of human rights defenders’

The Citizen / By MADISON, NJ

As an associate professor in political science at Drew University, New Jersey, who teaches and researches on human rights in India and the United States, I have been shocked to hear about the arbitrary arrest of prominent human rights activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha (as well as PUCL lawyer/ activist Sudha Bhardwaj, eminent poet Varavara Rao, lawyer Arun Ferreira and others) under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act that undermines basic due process rights.
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Is the owner of land also the owner of the minerals?

Is the owner of land also the owner of the minerals?

First published: Jun 6, 2015

Sanhati / By Stan Swamy

‘Minerals are an essential part of the land …the ownership of sub-soil/mineral wealth should normally follow the ownership of the land” – (SC:CIVIL APPEAL NO. 4549 OF 2000, delivered on July 8, 2013)
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The poet as the revolutionary – Talking with Varavara Rao (Part 1& 2)

The poet as the revolutionary – Talking with Varavara Rao (Part 1& 2)

Varavara Rao

First published: 2016

■ A POET AGAINST THE STATE: TALKING WITH VARAVARA RAO (Part 1)

RAIOT / By Ramu Ramanathan

In the first of the two part interview with Varavara Rao, founder member of Virasam (Revolutionary Writers’ Association), by playwright Ramu Ramanathan, the Maoist ideologue and Telegu poet reaffirms the role of an intellectual and reflects on the history of repression of the Indian state, and on the issues surrounding the statehood of Telangana
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■ The poet as the revolutionary – Talking with Varavara Rao (Part 2)

RAIOT / By Ramu Ramanathan

In the second part of the ongoing series of interviews with Varavara Rao, founder member of Virasam, by playwright Ramu Ramanathan, the Maoist ideologue and Telegu poet narrates his revolutionary journey, about people’s movements in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, about writing and publishing revolutionary literature and how the movement has produced some great writers.
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My book is a form of protest: Arun Ferreira

My book is a form of protest: Arun Ferreira

First published: Oct 5, 2014

National Confederations of Human Rights Organisations / By Kareena Gilani


Colours Of The Cage is an unsparing account of the nearly five years activist Arun Ferreira lost forever in Nagpur Central Jail after being accused of being a Naxalite. In May 2007, Ferreira was forced into a car by 15 men, beaten and blindfolded as he heard his abductors discussed the option of killing him off in an encounter. Till September 2011, Ferreira languished in prison while nine cases were slapped against him.
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