Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that the activists who were arrested in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence were mobilising Dalits in a bid to “overthrow the government”, PTI reported. The police claimed the coup was planned by the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
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Live Law / By PTI
The Supreme Court asked the Bombay High Court on Tuesday to decide on a plea moved by civil liberties activist Gautam Navlakha, seeking to quash the FIR lodged against him in the 2017 Koregaon-Bhima case, within eight weeks.
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The Hindu / By Special Correspondent
The activist has sought anticipatory bail in Bhima-Koregaon violence case.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday extended protection from arrest to academic-activist Anand Teltumbde in the Bhima-Koregaon violence case till March 22.
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The Quint / by Ankita Sinha
The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce its verdict on the bail hearing of activist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj on Monday, 11 March. This comes about five months after the Pune High Court rejected her bail. Bharadwaj was first put on house arrest in August 2018 and then arrested by the Pune police in October 2018 in connection with the Elgar Parishad case.
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The Asian Age / By The Asian Age
Gonsalves was arrested along with other activists Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bharadwaj, P Varavara Rao and Gautam Navlakha last year in the case.
The Bombay high court has refused to give immediate relief to Vernon Gonsalves, an accused in the Bhima-Koregaon violence case. Mr Gonsalves had challenged the extension given by the district court to the police to file a charge sheet in the case. The HC has directed the state to file a reply by April 9.
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Free Press Journal / By Staff Reporter
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday extended the pre-arrest relief of Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde, till March 12. This means, the Pune Police, which is investigating the Bhima-Koregaon violence case, cannot arrest Teltumbde, one of the several human rights’ activists, till March 12.
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Mumbai Mirror / By Shruti Ganapatye
In the supplementary chargesheet filed by the Pune police on the Bhima Koregaon violence case, the state has once again failed to establish that the arrested activists were involved in the violence. The chargesheet mostly relies on statements by the three surrendered naxals trying to link the activists with Maoist activities.
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Hindustan Times / By Kanchan Chaudhary
Bharadwaj, a professor at NLU, Delhi, was arrested on October 27, 2018, for allegedly being part of a banned Maoist organisation and inciting violence after the Elgar Parishad was held in Pune. The Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday reserved the order on the bail application of civil rights activist Sudha Bharadwaj, who was arrested by the Pune police in connection with the Elgar Parishad case. Justice Nitin Sambre said he will pronounce the order on March 11.
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Times of India / By Vishwas Kothari
Activist-lawyer Surendra Gadling argued before the special UAPA court on Tuesday that the electronic documents the Pune police seized in the Elgar Parishad case could not be relied on while deciding his bail plea because the prosecution had not yet provided their cloned copies to him and the other accused.
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Scroll.in/ By Mridula Chari
A new accused has been added to the case, along with claims that poet Varavara Rao helped to procure weapons from Nepal.
The Pune police on Thursday filed a supplementary chargesheet against four human rights activists, poet Varavara Rao, lawyer Arun Ferreira, and human rights activists Vernon Gonsalves and Sudha Bharadwaj.
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