Times of India / By Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court (HC) on Monday admonished the Maharashtra police for holding a press conference to discuss the recent arrest of five activists even though the matter was sub judice.
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Peoples Union of Democratic Rights (PUDR) welcomes the Supreme Court’s order on the petition filed by Prof. Romila Thapar and others for extending protection from custody to the five activists- Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bhardwaj and Arun Ferreira- arrested a month ago by the Maharashtra Police. A three-judge bench in its 2:1 majority judgment, even in refusing the demand of the petitioners for constituting a Special Investigating Team, recognised the damage to individuals that can be caused by such arbitrary arrests and has enabled every possible challenge to this power before the appropriate courts to secure personal liberty of the five activists.
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SABRANG INDIA / Statement of Romila Thapar a.o.
When human five rights activists were arrested by the Pune Police in what was seen as a nationwide crackdown on dissenting voices, civil society members led by Romila Thapar moved the Supreme Court against this. Today after the apex court disposed the petition and directed the activists to seek relief from lower courts, the petitioners have issued the following press release.
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Scroll.in / By Sruthisagar Yamunan
The majority opinion and the dissenting one are starkly contrasting in the way they have approached the public interest litigation filed by eminent persons.
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LIVE LAW NEWS NETWORK / By Live Law News Network
The Supreme Court turned down the plea for probe by a Special Investigation Team into the Bhima Koregaon case. The majority opinion by Justice A M Khanwilkar and CJI Dipak Misra dismissed the plea; however, Justice D Y Chandrachud dissented, holding the arrests to be baseless.
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Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
In a minority judgment on Friday, he argued that the material put before the court takes ‘liberties with the truth’.
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WSS condemns the majority judgment of the Supreme Court regarding the arrests of Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao.
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The Wire / By The Wire Staff
The signatories have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of those arrested.
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The Wire / Sowjanya Tamalapakula
The Muslim question has been dealt with by stigmatising Muslims as ‘anti-national’ and the ‘other’ to the larger Hindu community. Stigmatising Dalits in a similar fashion is not plausible because Dalits are an essential part of the ‘Hindu community’.
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The Leaflet / By KRITIKA A
Advocate Susan Abraham was one among the rights activists whose house was raided on the morning of August 28. She talks to The Leaflet about the raids, their connection to the Bhima Koregaon chain of events and the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act which has been used to incarcerate the rights activists.
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