Times of India / by TNN
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the Pune special trial UAPA court to hear the bail applications of Rona Wilson and five other accused in the Elgar Parishad case within two months.
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The New Indian Express / by By IANS
A caveat means that the party urge the court to not pass any order without hearing it.
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday filed a caveat in the Supreme Court anticipating Gautam Navlakha’s appeal against the Bombay High Court’s refusal to quash an FIR filed against him by the state police in the Bhima Koregoan case.
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Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent
PUNE: Special Judge Ravindra M Pande, on Friday, rejected the plea of nine accused arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case and alleged Maoist links, challenging the special court’s jurisdiction to take direct cognisance of the offence and to deny them bail.
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Livelaw / by Nitish Kashyap
The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a writ petition filed by human rights activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha seeking quashing of an FIR registered against him by Pune police alleging his involvement in inciting the violence at Koregaon Bhima in Pune on January 1, 2018. The Court observed that there was prima facie material against the 65-year-old referring to the document submitted in a sealed envelope by Additional Public Prosecutor Aruna Pai. The said document allegedly contained additional material against Navlakha.
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The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal
The Bombay High Court on Friday extended activist Gautam Navlakha’s interim relief from arrest for three weeks. Mr. Navlakha has been charged with having Maoist links in the Bhima Koregaon violence.
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Outlook / by Preetha Nair
Lawyers and kin of jailed activists allege pre-trial punishment.
“It’s tough without him around. I am not hopeful of any positive outcome now,” says Meenal Gadling, wife of human rights lawyer Surendra Gadling, who has been languishing in Pune’s Yerawada jail for more than a year now.
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The Times of India / by Swati Deshpande
Mumbai: Law professor Sudha Bharadwaj’s counsel Yug Chaudhary, while seeking her bail in the Elgar Parishad case on Friday, said even in British India courts rejected cases with unsigned and unverified letters as evidence.
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Business Standard / by Press Trust of India
Activist Sudha Bharadwaj, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, told the Bombay High Court on Friday that she had been in jail for one whole year and the Pune police had failed to produce any credible evidence against her.
Bharadwaj has filed a bail application in the high court.
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The Hindu / by The Hindu
Presenting the case to grant bail to human rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, her advocate told the Bombay High Court on Friday that “Pune Police has not produced any document from her house in the charge sheet and the affidavit filed by them” linking her in the Elgaar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case.
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The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal
The advocate appearing for trade unionist and human rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, while arguing for her bail, told the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that Pune Police has found no material against her to keep her at Yerwada jail for a year in the Elgaar Parishad case.
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