Pune police file supplementary chargesheet against five activists
Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
The chargesheet named activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and banned CPI (Maoist) leader Ganapathy.
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How one of five activists the Pune police sought to arrest in August avoided custody
Scroll.in / By Sruthisagar Yamunan
The Delhi High Court acted almost immediately when Gautam Navlakha challenged his transit remand.
As the four weeks of protection given to Anand Teltumbde by the Supreme Court run out on Monday, the senior professor at the Goa Institute of Management faces the possibility of arrest in the Bhima Koregaon case.
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The (lack of) case against Anand Teltumbde
Newslaundry / By Prateek Goyal
The primary evidence of the Pune police is a clutch of letters, but it’s subject to too many flaws.
Nine activists and lawyers have been arrested till date by the Pune police in the Koregaon-Bhima case. They’ve been termed “Maoists” by the police on the basis of some letters produced by the police—the credibility of which are questionable.
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Indian govt accused of war on activists ahead of election
Asia Times / By Asia Times
The arrest of activists linked to the Bhima Koregaon violence continues amid fears case has been politicized.
The Bhima-Koregaon riots case in Maharashtra has taken multiple twists and turns over the past year, from arbitrary arrests to dubious evidence and delayed investigation to a conspiracy theory about a plot to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But recent developments show this has become a “state versus activists” case ahead of the election this year.
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Call: Twitter Storm (Feb 4, 2019)
Mumbai: Solidarity with Anand Teltumbde and others
By Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy
The united left and progressive parties organizations came together at Azad Maidan, Mumbai on 25th January demanding withdrawing of malicious cases against Dr. Anand Teltumbde and Prof. Hiren Gohain from Assam.
One year of Bhima Koregaon case (Part III)
The Leaflet / By Nihal Singh Rathod
All the activists arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case are left-leaning lawyers, academics and organic intellectuals who are extremely popular among the Dalit-Bahujan communities in Maharashtra and also in other states, because of the stellar work they have been doing over the years. The two sets of arrests — on June 6, 2018 and on August 28, 2018 — were based on one FIR filed on January 8, 2018.
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Police Gets More Time to File Supplementary Chargesheet
The Wire / By PTI
Pune: A court here on Monday, November 26, granted 90-day extension to the Pune police for filing a supplementary charge sheet against rights activists Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferriera, Sudha Bharadwaj and Varavara Rao in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
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Police get 90-day extension to file supplementary chargesheet against four activists
Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
Investigators need more time to forensically examine coded electronic messages that the accused allegedly exchanged with Maoist leaders, the prosecution said.
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Police Seek More Time To Charge-sheet Sudha Bharadwaj, Others
Livelaw.in / By PTI
Pune Police on Friday moved a court here seeking another 90 days to file a supplementary charge sheet against left-wing activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
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