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SC Stays Gautam Navlakha’s Bail Proceedings Before Delhi High Court

02/06/2020 Maya

Live.law / by Sanya Talwar & Nilashish Chaudhary

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the proceedings in the Gautam Navlakha’s bail proceedings before Delhi High Court. The Court was hearing an appeal filed by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) against a May 27 order of the Delhi High Court whereby it directed the agency to furnish a complete record of the proceedings before the NIA Special Judges based on which he was transferred to Mumbai.
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SC SEEKS REPLY OF GAUTAM NAVLAKHA ON NIA’S PLEA

The Times of India / by PTI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday sought response from civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha on NIA plea challenging Delhi high court order seeking records of judicial proceedings before special courts in the national capital and Mumbai in the Bhima Koregaon case.
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Varavara Rao discharged from hospital, sent back to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai

02/06/2020 Maya

The Indian Express / Express News Service

Hospital superintendent Sanjay Surase said that Varavara Rao was discharged after he was declared “fit” and that he was admitted due to “giddiness”.
Poet and academician P Varavara Rao was discharged from JJ hospital in Mumbai on Monday and shifted back to Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai. The 80 year old, booked in the Elgaar Parishad case, was rushed to hospital on Thursday after he fell unconscious in the jail.
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Varavara Rao tests negative for Covid, court seeks medical report

31/05/2020 Rani

VV Rao’s daughter Pavana and wife Hemalatha protest in Hyderabad on Friday

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

“He is stable as of now and is being evaluated. He had dizziness, which seems to have been a vertigo attack,” a senior hospital doctor said.
A special court has directed Mumbai’s JJ Hospital to submit a medical report on the health conditions of poet Varavara Rao, who was arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case.
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Revolutionary poet Varvara Rao admitted to Mumbai hospital

30/05/2020 Maya

VV Rao’s daughter Pavana and wife Hemalatha protest in Hyderabad on Friday

The New Indian Express / by IANS

Varavara Rao’s wife Hemalatha and daughter Pavana staged a three-hour-long protest at home, holding placards for release of the 80-year-old who was arrested in November 2018.
HYDERABAD: Revolutionary Telugu poet and writer Varavara Rao, who is in judicial custody in Maharashtra in the Bhima Koregaon case, has been admitted to JJ Hospital at Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
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Activist Varavara Rao admitted to hospital in Mumbai

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

Taloja Jail authorities said Rao was being treated at the medical facility within the jail, but his condition did not improve for three days.
Varavara Rao, the 81-year-old Telugu poet and an accused in the Elgar Parishad case, was admitted to JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Thursday, the Hindustan Times reported. Taloja Jail authorities said Rao was being treated at the medical facility within the jail over the last three days, but was shifted to hospital after his condition did not improve.
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Spl Court Rejects Interim Medical Bail Application Filed By Sudha Bharadwaj

29/05/2020 Maya

Live.law / by Nitish Kashyap

A Special court in Mumbai on Friday rejected the interim bail application filed on behalf of tribal rights activist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj arrested in relation to the caste based violence that took place at Koregaon Bhima in Pune on January 1, 2018. The 58-year-old Bharadwaj is currently lodged in Byculla women’s jail where an inmate has already tested positive for Covid-19.
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MUMBAI COURT REJECTS BAL TO SUDHA BHARADWAJ

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

In her interim bail plea filed on medical grounds, Bharadwaj had said that she is at a high risk of contracting the virus in prison and in her present medical condition, it would be ‘life-threatening’.
A SPECIAL court in Mumbai on Friday rejected the interim bail application of activist Sudha Bharadwaj arrested in the Elgar Parishad case. Bharadwaj (58) is lodged in Byculla women’s jail where earlier this month an inmate had tested positive for Covid-19.
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Activist Varavara Rao admitted to hospital in Mumbai

29/05/2020 Maya

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

The bail applications filed on medical grounds of Varavara Rao and Shoma Sen will be heard on June 2.

PUDR: Condemn the surreptitious transfer of Gautam Navlakha to Taloja Jail

28/05/2020 Maya

By Peoples Union for Democratic Rights

People’s Union for Democratic Rights is aghast at the National Investigating Agency (NIA) surreptitiously whisking away Gautam Navlakha from the Tihar Jail to Mumbai on 25 May 2020, without informing his lawyers or his family. 67-year old Gautam Navlakha was arrested by the NIA in the Bhima Koregaon matter, the infamous case that has become the vehicle to arrest human rights activists: journalists, academicians and lawyers critical of government actions.
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It Appears NIA Acted In Haste To Move Gautam Navlakha To Mumbai: Delhi HC [Read Order]

28/05/2020 Maya

Live Law / by Karan Tripathi

In the matter pertaining to the bail plea of Gautam Navlakha, the Delhi High Court has directed National Investigation Agency to furnish the complete copy of the proceedings in the application for issuance of production warrants moved before the Special Judge (Mumbai), for its consideration.
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Even as Delhi HC Weighs Interim Bail Plea, NIA Rushes Gautam Navlakha to Mumbai Custody

26/05/2020

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

Navlakha has been sent to judicial custody and will be lodged at Taloja jail near Mumbai. The Wire has reported that an inmate recently died there of COVID-19.
New Delhi/Mumbai: In a move that took his lawyers and family by surprise, the noted civil liberties activist Gautam Navlakha was shifted by the National Investigation Agency from Delhi to Mumbai on Monday and remanded to judicial custody by a special NIA court till June 22.
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NIA opposes interim bail plea of Shoma Sen, Varavara Rao and Sudha Bhardwaj

23/05/2020 Rani

Hindustan Times / by Charul Shah

The three accused have moved the special court separately for interim bail on the ground of the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in prison, and have expressed concerns about contracting SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease.
The National Investigating Agency (NIA), which has been probing the Elgar Parishad case since January, has opposed the plea for interim bail filed by the accused activists Dr Shoma Sen, Vara Vara Rao, and Sudha Bhardwaj. … The next hearing will be held on May 28.
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GUIDELINES TO FREE INMATES ON TEMPORARY BAIL NOT APPLICABLE TO ACCUSED: NIA

23/05/2020

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

The high-powered committee, which was constituted to decongest jails in the state, has recommended the release of all undertrials with exceptions, including those facing charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The Elgaar Parishad accused are booked under UAPA. It has, however, left it to such accused to file for interim bail to be considered on medical grounds or circumstances of the case by the courts.
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Judicial custody of Anand Teltumbde extended till June 5

22/05/2020 Maya

The Hindu / by Special Correspondent

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Friday extended the judicial custody of Anand Teltumbde, an engineer and Indian Institute of Management graduate who used to teach at the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), arrested by the agency on April 14 in connection with the Elghar Parishad case, till June 5.
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