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The Supreme Court also granted Navlakha permission to approach an appropriate court for pre-arrest bail.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended by four weeks the interim protection from arrest granted to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon case, Bar and Bench reported. It also granted Navlakha permission to approach an appropriate court seeking pre-arrest bail.
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The Indian Express / by Express Web Desk
The Bombay High Court Tuesday rejected the bail application of activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case for their alleged links with the banned CPI-Maoist.
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The Times of India / by Vishwas Kothari
PUNE: Defence lawyers Rohan Nahar and Rahul Deshmukh submitted on Thursday that the city police had no tangible evidence to connect the accused in the Elgar Parishad case with the banned CPI (Maoist) and the terror charges invoked in it.
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Hindustan Times / by Shalaka Shinde
The arguments of bail in the Elgar Parishad case have commenced for the third time in the court of Additional Sessions Judge SR Navandar as he took over charge from Additional Sessions Judge Ravindra Pande
Nine activists have been in jail over allegations of links with CPI(M) and involvement in Elgar Parishad and the protests in Bhima Koregaon. The case has been heard by three judges so far. Every time a judge is changed, the bail hearings begin from scratch.
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The Indian Express / By Express News Service
Police have claimed that a letter seized from an accused mentions an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a ‘Rajiv Gandhi type incident’.
A defence lawyer representing two of the arrested accused in the Elgaar Parishad case — Rona Wilson and P Varavara Rao — on Thursday termed the investigation in the case ‘biased’ and ‘imaginary’.
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Livelaw / by Nitish Kashyap
The Bombay High Court on Monday reserved judgement after conclusion of arguments in bail applications filed by activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Pune police’s case against the said accused that they were involved in inciting caste-based violence at Koregaon Bhima in Pune on January 1, 2018.
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Hindustan Times / by KAY Dodhiya
The three activists accused in last year’s Bhima-Koregaon violence claimed before the Bombay high court (HC) that merely knowing or professing Marxist, Leninist, Bolshevik or Maoist ideologies could not be the basis for keeping them in jail. The Pune Police concluded its arguments opposing the bail applications of the three accused –Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira and Sudha Bharadwaj – on Friday.
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The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal
Files rejoinder claiming that email contradicts letter that prosecution has relied on to accuse activist
The lawyer appearing for trade unionist and human rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj in the Elgar Parishad case filed a rejoinder in the Bombay High Court on Friday, saying that the Pune Police have not added an email, which refutes their claim, to the charge sheet.
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Live Law / by Livelaw News Network
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon case. The bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta directed the Maharashtra police to produce the materials collected against him in the investigation so far and posted the matter on October 15 at 3 PM.
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Hindustan Times / by KAY Dodhiya
Pune Police on Thursday continued its argument against the bail applications of activists Vernon Gonsalves, Dr Sudha Bharadwaj and Arun Ferreira, who were arrested last year in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
The police said two letters … prove that the Indian Association of People’s Lawyer (IAPL), and three other organisations, were fronts for the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
However, the accused’s phone records raised questions about the police’s theory.
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