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Maoists Were Conspiring To Kill PM: Pune Police Files Charge Sheet In Bhima Koregaon Case

Maoists Were Conspiring To Kill PM: Pune Police Files Charge Sheet In Bhima Koregaon Case

LIVE LAW NEWS NETWORK / By Live Law News Network

Some Maoist leaders were conspiring to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and planned to procure arms and ammunition to wage a war against the country, Pune police claimed in its charge sheet filed in the Bhima Koregaon case filed Thursday.
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Pune Police claim assassination plot against prime minister in chargesheet

Pune Police claim assassination plot against prime minister in chargesheet

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

The police have accused activist Rona Wilson, who was among the five arrested in June, of plotting to kill the prime minister.
The Pune Police on Thursday filed a chargesheet against five activists who were arresed in June for alleged Maoist links in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, ANI reported.
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Pune Court Dismisses Bail Applications Of Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves & Arun Ferreira [Read Order]

Pune Court Dismisses Bail Applications Of Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves & Arun Ferreira [Read Order]

LIVE LAW NEWS NETWORK / By Live Law News Network

A Pune Court has dismissed the bail applications filed by Sudha Bharadwaj,Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, who are under house arrest in relation to FIR registered by Maharashtra police for alleged Maoist links in Bhima-Koregaon violence.
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Bombay High Court relief to Advocate Surendra Gadling and others arrested on June 6 is welcome

Bombay High Court relief to Advocate Surendra Gadling and others arrested on June 6 is welcome

The Leaflet / By Deepa Punjani

Stressing the provision available to the arrestees under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPc), Justice Mridula Bhatkar says that the provision as contemplated by Section 167 of the Code is a “laudable provision” vindicating the right of the accused to be released after the stipulated period and an incomplete investigation beyond 90 days cannot be a ground to deny the accused bail.
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Conspiracy of Silence: Dalit Migrant Workers First Targets of the Police in Bhima Koregaon Case

Conspiracy of Silence: Dalit Migrant Workers First Targets of the Police in Bhima Koregaon Case

CJP / By Akhil Vasudevan

On January 12, 2018, two weeks after Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad program in Pune, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police picked up four workers of Reliance Infrastructure, one contractor from the same company and a casual worker. Their houses in the slum were raided in the middle of the night for hours before the arrest. A union activist was picked up a day before. The ATS squad questioned several other workers from the same company in the following days and finally arrested one more person from Reliance Infrastructure on 25th January. Interestingly, all the eight arrested men are migrants from Andhra/Telangana region. All of them have been charged under draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
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