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2016 Surjagarh arson case: Advocate Gadling can appear in person to argue his discharge plea, says court

2016 Surjagarh arson case: Advocate Gadling can appear in person to argue his discharge plea, says court

The Indian Express / by Sadaf Modak

Observing that denying permission to advocate Surendra Gadling to argue his discharge application in person, pending for nearly three years in a case in Gadchiroli, would “compound the injustice already caused by the inordinate delay”, a special court in Aheri directed that arrangements be made for him to be produced before it on October 28.
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Elgar Parishad case: HC questions Gadling’s plea, says accused can’t choose probe agency (Hindustan Times / Sep 2025)
Supreme Court Seeks Explanation on Delayed Trial in 2016 Arson Case (Devdiscourse / Sep 2025)
6 yrs, no charges framed – Surendra Gadling stuck in trial limbo in 2016 Surajgarh arson case (The Print / Sep 2025)
In Surendra Gadling’s case, adjournment becomes the verdict (Frontline / Aug 2025)
Surendra Gadling’s Computer Was Attacked, Incriminating Documents Planted: Arsenal Consulting (The Wire / July 2021)

‘Can get treatment at Mumbai civic hospital’: Court declines travel nod to Varavara Rao

‘Can get treatment at Mumbai civic hospital’: Court declines travel nod to Varavara Rao

Bail! VV Rao, Feb 2021

Activist Varavara Rao’s request to travel for dental surgery rejected

10/10/2025

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

The court said that adequate and affordable treatment was available in the city and found no satisfactory reason for the 85-year-old to travel to Telangana.
A special National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai on Thursday rejected a plea by 85-year-old activist and poet Varavara Rao, who is out on bail in the Bhima Koregaon case, seeking permission to travel to Hyderabad for two months for a dental surgery, The Indian Express reported.
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‘Can get treatment at Mumbai civic hospital’: Court declines travel nod to Varavara Rao

10/10/2025

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

85-yr-old filed plea for travel to Hyderabad for dental operation
A special court on Thursday rejected a plea filed by Telugu poet 85-year-old Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, who had sought to travel to Hyderabad for two months for a dental operation.
The court said that the Supreme Court while granting him bail in its “magnanimous humanity” had given him the liberty to leave Mumbai if required with permission from the special court.
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SC refuses to hear plea of P Varavara Rao on bail modification (Hindustan Times / Sep 2025)
For accused out on bail, Court’s condition to not leave city a further challenge (The Indian Express / Jan 2025)
Supreme Court grants permanent medical bail to P. Varavara Rao in Bhima Koregaon case (The Leaflet / Aug 2022)

Supreme Court Extends Interim Bail Of Mahesh Raut Till November 26

Supreme Court Extends Interim Bail Of Mahesh Raut Till November 26

Live Law / by Gursimran Kaur Bakshi

The Supreme Court today (October 9) extended the interim bail granted to Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case accused Mahesh Sitaram Raut, arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, over alleged Maoist links, till November 26. Raut was granted bail on September 16 for a period of six weeks by a bench comprising Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Satish Kumar Sharma on medical grounds. The same bench today extended his interim medical bail.

Along with Raut, co-accused Jyoti Jagtap’s matter is also listed before this bench.
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SC Grants Interim Bail To Mahesh Raut On Medical Grounds For Six Weeks, Jyoti Jagtap’s Bail Plea To Be Heard In October (The Commune / Sep 2025)
Supreme Court grants six-week interim medical bail to Bhima Koregaon accused Mahesh Raut (Sabrangindia / Sep 2025)
Year after being granted bail, Mahesh Raut remains in jail as stay extended (The Indian Express / Sep 2024)
Inconsistencies in Bail Orders Mean Individual Liberty Is the Outcome of Judicial Lottery (The Wire / Oct 2022)

Bombay High Court seeks NIA’s response to Navlakha’s plea to reside in Delhi

Bombay High Court seeks NIA’s response to Navlakha’s plea to reside in Delhi

Gautam Navlakha

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

The special court designated under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act in June this year had rejected Navlakha’s plea, after which he approached the HC in July this year challenging the same.

A bench of Justices Gadkari and Ranjitsinha R Bhonsale on Friday issued notice to NIA seeking its reply by next hearing on November 7.
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Gautam Navlakha cites Mumbai costs draining savings, seeks virtual hearing (India Today / Oct 2025)
Mumbai court denies Elgar Parishad case accused’s plea to visit Delhi (India Today / Aug 2025)
Bhima Koregaon case: Court rejects activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to live in Delhi (Scroll.in / Jun 2025)
Navlakha files application in court seeking permission to stay in Delhi (The Indian Express / Apr 2025)
Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon accused struggle to find house in city (Hindustan Times / Nov 2022)

Father Stan Swamy died of natural causes, Maharashtra government tells court

Father Stan Swamy died of natural causes, Maharashtra government tells court

Illustration by #bakeryprasad

Father Stan Swamy died of natural causes, Maharashtra government tells court

07/10/2025

India Today / by Vidya

The Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission found no foul play or medical negligence. The Bombay High Court is hearing a plea to clear his name, with further hearing on November 13.
The Maharashtra government on Monday submitted a magistrate’s enquiry report confirming that Father Stan Swamy’s death was due to natural causes. The report, prepared by Bandra Magistrate Komalsing Rajput following an enquiry on April 24, 2024, concluded that the 84-year-old activist, who was imprisoned in the Elgar Parishad case, died from “septicemia due to lobar pneumonia (natural).”
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‘Father Stan Swamy Died Natural Death, Was Provided Prompt Medical Treatment’: State Tells Bombay High Court

06/10/2025

Live Law / by Narsi Benwal

The Bombay High Court was informed on Monday that a mandatory Magisterial Inquiry report on Father Stan Swamy’s death was submitted before the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) earlier in May which concluded that he had died a ‘natural death.’
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NIA opposes plea to clear Stan Swamy’s name, says it would set wrong precedent (India Today / Sep 2025)
I saw firsthand how callous prison officials and their negligence led to Stan Swamy’s death (Scroll.in | by Arun Ferreira | Jul 2025)
Daring, Fearless and Kind, Father Stan Swamy Remains a Beacon of Resistance (The Wire | by Hany Babu, Jyoti Jagtap, Mahesh Raut, Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe, Surendra Gadling | Jul 2025)
How the system broke Stan Swamy: A cell mate recalls the activist’s last days in prison (Scroll.in | by Arun Ferreira | Aug 2021)

Gautam Navlakha cites Mumbai costs draining savings, seeks virtual hearing

Gautam Navlakha cites Mumbai costs draining savings, seeks virtual hearing

Bail ! Gautam with his partner Sabha Husain. May 2024.

India Today / by Vidya

Bombay High Court has directed the NIA to respond to Gautam Navlakha’s plea seeking permission to reside in Delhi and attend court via video conferencing.
The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to respond to a petition filed by activist and Elgar Parishad case accused Gautam Navlakha seeking permission to reside in Delhi and attend court proceedings through video conferencing.
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Mumbai court denies Elgar Parishad case accused’s plea to visit Delhi (India Today / Aug 2025)
Bhima Koregaon case: Court rejects activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to live in Delhi (Scroll.in / Jun 2025)
Navlakha files application in court seeking permission to stay in Delhi (The Indian Express / Apr 2025)
Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon accused struggle to find house in city (Hindustan Times / Nov 2022)

Bombay High Court Reserves Order On Bail Plea Of Former DU Professor Hany Babu

Bombay High Court Reserves Order On Bail Plea Of Former DU Professor Hany Babu

Solidarity poster by @bakeryprasad

Bombay HC Reserves Order On Bail Plea Of Former DU Professor Hany Babu

04/10/2025

Free Press Journal / by Urvi Mahajan

The Bombay High Court on Friday reserved its order on the bail plea filed by former Delhi University professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Elgar Parishad–Maoist links case. A bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhonsale clarified that the order would not be on the merits of the case but on the question of the accused’s prolonged incarceration without trial.
The Bombay High Court on Friday reserved its order on the bail plea filed by former Delhi University professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Elgar Parishad–Maoist links case.
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Court to decide on professor Hany Babu’s bail, order reserved

03/10/2025

India Today / by Vidya

Senior advocate Yug Mohit Chaudhary, representing Hany Babu, mainly argued the plea on the ground of prolonged incarceration without trial. He pointed to other accused, such as Vernon Gonsalves, who had been granted bail by the Supreme Court on the same ground.
The Bombay High Court on Friday reserved its order on the bail plea of Delhi University English professor Hany Babu, who has been in prison for five years and two months in Pune’s Elgar Parishad case of 2018.
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Bombay High Court Reserves Order In Hany Babu’s Plea For Bail

03/10/2025

Live Law / by Narsi Benwal

The Bombay High Court on Friday closed for orders, the bail application filed by former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu, who has been booked for his alleged role in the Elgar Parishad – Bhima Koregaon case. A division bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhonsale closed the application filed by Babu, for orders.
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Also read:
Why Hany Babu Writes From Prison (The Wire / Jul 2025)
SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail (The Wire / Jul 2025)
How Long is Too Long? On the Maximum Period that an Undertrial Prisoner can be Detained (Constitutional Law and Philosophy | by Hany Babu & Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)
Why the SC Judgment Granting Bail to Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira Is So Significant (The Wire / Jul 2023)

Bombay HC refuses to allow Anand Teltumbde to travel abroad for lectures

Bombay HC refuses to allow Anand Teltumbde to travel abroad for lectures

Bombay HC refuses to allow Bhima Koregaon accused Anand Teltumbde to travel abroad for lectures

01/10/2025

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

The National Investigation Agency had opposed the activist’s travel to Europe, raising concerns that he might abscond.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to allow writer and activist Anand Teltumbde, one of the 16 persons accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case, to travel to Europe to deliver a series of lectures and seminars at universities, Live Law reported.
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Bombay High Court Refuses To Allow Dr Anand Teltumbde To Travel Abroad For Delivering Lecture

01/10/2025

Live Law / by Narsi Benwal

After the Bombay High Court on Wednesday expressed disinclination to permit rights’ activist Dr Anand Teltumbde to travel to Amsterdam and the United Kingdom for attending academic assignments, the accused in the Elgar Parishad – Bhima Koregaon case, withdrew his plea.
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Teltumbde withdraws foreign travel plea after HC shows reluctance

01/10/2025

Hindustan Times / by pti

Elgar case: Teltumbde withdraws foreign travel plea after HC shows reluctance
Mumbai, Academician Anand Teltumbde, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, on Wednesday withdrew his petition seeking permission to travel abroad to deliver lectures after the Bombay High Court expressed its disinclination to allow it.
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Anti-terror agency seeks to seize Anand Teltumbde’s passport (India Today / Sep 2025)
NIA opposes Anand Teltumbde’s plea to travel abroad, cites risk of absconding (The Hindu / April 2025)
Will the bail granted to Anand Teltumbde help others in the Bhima Koregaon case to get out of jail? (Scroll.in / Nov 2022)

NIA files plea to impound passports of Anand Teltumbde, Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut, Gautam Navlakha, Hany Babu

NIA files plea to impound passports of Anand Teltumbde, Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut, Gautam Navlakha, Hany Babu

Anti-terror agency seeks to seize Anand Teltumbde’s passport

30/09/2025

India Today / by Vidya

A total of 16 people were arrested in the Elgar Parishad case, which pertained to an event organised at Shaniwar Wada in Pune on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Koregaon Bhima on December 31, 2017.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed an application before a special court in Mumbai, seeking directions to impound the passports of Anand Teltumbde, Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut, Gautam Navlakha, and Hany Babu — the five accused in the 2018 Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
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NIA files plea to impound passports of 5 accused in Elgaar case

30/09/2025

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Special public prosecutor Prakash Shetty on Monday moved the plea citing provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a plea before the special court seeking directions to impound passports of five accused arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case. The court has directed the accused to file their replies.
… The court will likely hear the plea on October 9. The trial in the case is yet to begin.
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NIA opposes Anand Teltumbde’s plea to travel abroad, cites risk of absconding (The Hindu / April 2025)
Bhima-Koregaon case transferred to NIA to compromise independent probe: Front Line Defenders (Jan 2020)

Transfer of case to NIA | High Court questions Gadling’s plea, says accused can’t choose probe agency

Transfer of case to NIA | High Court questions Gadling’s plea, says accused can’t choose probe agency

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Hindustan Times / by Karuna Nidhi

On June 6, 2018, Gadling and Dhawale were arrested under stringent sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), for their alleged links with the Maoists and the conspiracy to incite violence in Bhima Koregaon
The Bombay High Court on Thursday questioned the maintainability of a petition filed by Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case accused Surendra Gadling and Sudhir Dhawale, contending the transfer of the case from the Pune police to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in January 2020 was politically motivated.
… The bench adjourned the matter for further hearing on October 9 after Talekar sought time to respond to the court’s query.
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Also read:
Why caste Hindutva, not an Elgar conspiracy, is at the root of the Bhima Koregaon violence (The Polis Project / Feb 2025)
Surendra Gadling and Sudhir Dhawale Challenge Transfer of Elgar Parishad Probe to NIA (Gauri Lankesh News / Jul 2021)
‘Centre’s Decision to Hand Bhima Koregaon to NIA Unconstitutional’: Maha Home Minister (The Wire / Jan 2020)
Deputy CM raises doubts in case against 10 activists, seeks proof in 15 days (Scroll.in / Jan 2020)
Bhima-Koregaon case transferred to NIA to compromise independent probe: Front Line Defenders (Jan 2020)