Justice Chandrachud dissents again: Bhima Koregaon case needs impartial investigation
Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
In a minority judgment on Friday, he argued that the material put before the court takes ‘liberties with the truth’.
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Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi asserts basis of FIR is a translation of German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s poem!
The Leaflet / The Leaflet Staff
The entire basis of the FIR against those arrested is that Sudhir Dhawale sang a song whose words were a call to bring down the State — he explained how these words are actually a translation of a poem in a play by Bertolt Brecht, The Good Person of Szchewan. He quoted CJI Dipak Mishra’s judgments rejecting the ban on the Malayalam novel Meesha where there SC upheld freedom of expression particularly cultural, artistic expression of a poet.
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Video: Advocate Susan Abraham on #BhimaKoregaonArrests, UAPA
en | 15 min | 2018
The Leaflet / By KRITIKA A
Advocate Susan Abraham was one among the rights activists whose house was raided on the morning of August 28. She talks to The Leaflet about the raids, their connection to the Bhima Koregaon chain of events and the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act which has been used to incarcerate the rights activists.
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How Courts dealt with arbitrary detentions, saying dissent is ‘safety valve of democracy’
The Leaflet / By The Leaflet
Courts in five different places, including Delhi High Court, Faridabad court, Pune sessions court, Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Supreme Court, have addressed the police’s recent targeting of lawyers, activists and writers, in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence in petitions filed by concerned members of the academic fraternity.
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Surendra Gadling’s wife moves application seeking intervention in petition filed in Supreme Court by Romila Thapar et al
The Leaflet / By The Leaflet
Minal Gadling, the wife of advocate Surendra Gadling, on behalf of the five activists arrested on June 6, 2018 — including her husband Gadling, Professor Shoma Sen, Sudhir Dhawale, Mahesh Raut and Rona Wilson — has approached the Supreme Court seeking intervention in a petition filed by Romila Thapar and others. She has prayed for extending the benefit of Supreme Court’s order passed on August 29, 2018 in Romila Thapar case to all the above-named persons who are under arrest since last two months.
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In Nationwide Swoop, Five Rights Activists Arrested, Several More Raided
The Wire / By The Wire Staff
The Delhi high court stayed Gautam Navlakha’s transfer to Pune till Wednesday. Sudha Bharadwaj too won a two-day reprieve. Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira and Varavara Rao were also arrested and are due to be transferred to Pune.
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“Dissent Is The Safety Valve Of Democracy”: Supreme Court Says Five Activists Arrested Shall Be Kept At Their Houses Only. [Read order]
LIVE LAW NEWS NETWORK / By Live Law News Network
“Dissent is a safety valve of democracy. If you don’t allow dissent, the pressure valve of democracy will burst”, Justice Chandrachud observed during the hearing.
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Maharashtra government sitting on NHRC notice on illegal detention of human rights activists
The Leaflet / By The Leaflet
NHRC had issued notice on June 29, 2018 to the Director General of Police (DGP), Maharashtra calling for a report in connection with the illegal arrests of five human rights defenders namely Surendra Gadling, Rona Wilson, Sudhir Dhawale, Shoma Sen and Mahesh Raut by Maharashtra police on June 6, 2018.
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State of Maharashtra opposes request for cot, commode, books on Vivekananda by Bhima-Koregaon arrestees
The Leaflet / By The Leaflet
Had there been a provision in the prison manual for such circumstances, this would not have arisen, says lawyer-activist from Nagpur.
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Maharashtra cops have detained the Bhima-Koregaon arrestees over ‘lecture planned at JNU’
The Leaflet / By The Leaflet
The defence lawyers for the activists argued that organising lecture series in JNU had nothing to do with the Elgaar Parishad and the Koregaon Bhima Shaurya Prernadin Abhiyan.
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