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Gautam Navlakha: India’s Inspiration to Demand Civil Liberties in Kashmir

Gautam Navlakha: India’s Inspiration to Demand Civil Liberties in Kashmir

Gauri Lankesh News / by Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty

Gautam was among the very few who had grasped the issues, personally investigated the ground situation in Jammu and Kashmir, produced many fact-finding reports which shaped the thinking in the civil liberty movement in India.
Gautam Navlakha launched an Independent Initiative on Kashmir in the 1980s and that was when we had some serious discussion on the Kashmir question at Delhi University. Many of us were so far confused about the way to formulate the J&K issue and most people were unaware of the historical facts. Gautam, then with the Economic and Political Weekly, was among the few who clearly underlined the political question of self-determination that was at the center of the debate.
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Vernon Gonsalves, 19 other inmates at Taloja jail test negative

Vernon Gonsalves, 19 other inmates at Taloja jail test negative


Drawing by Arun Ferreira

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Two days after writer-poet Varavara Rao (80), accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, tested positive for Covid-19, 20 other inmates of Taloja Central Jail, including Vernon Gonsalves (61), a co-accused in the case, have tested negative, prison officials said Saturday.
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Revamped Shakti Bhatt prize honours activists Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha

Revamped Shakti Bhatt prize honours activists Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha

The Indian Express / by Lifestyle Desk

Starting this year, the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize now known as the Shakti Bhatt Prize, will honour an author’s body of work rather than their first book, as was hitherto practiced. This year’s honours go to Anand Teltumbde, scholar, activist and writer of Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop and Republic of Caste along with Gautam Navlakha, an activist, journalist and writer of Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion.
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Special court extends Navlakha, Teltumbde, detention by 90 days

Special court extends Navlakha, Teltumbde, detention by 90 days

The Indian Express / by Sadaf Modak

The NIA, probing the case, can now file a chargesheet against the two men in 180 days since their arrest on April 14.
Observing that due to the lockdown, the investigating officer in the Elgaar Parishad case could not “investigate the matter effectively”, a special court has extended the detention of academic Dr Anand Teltumbde and activist Gautam Navlakha by another 90 days. The NIA, probing the case, can now file a chargesheet against the two men in 180 days since their arrest on April 14.
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Mumbai Special Court Rejects Gautam Navlakha’s Plea For Default Bail

Mumbai Special Court Rejects Gautam Navlakha’s Plea For Default Bail

Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap

In a Sunday hearing, a special court in Mumbai denied default bail to activist Gautam Navlakha who is currently lodged at Taloja jail. Court also allowed NIA’s application seeking custody of Navlakha for ten days in order to question him in the Bhima Koregaon case …
Moreover, Judge Kothalikar accepted NIA’s plea seeking extension of 90 to 180 days to file chargesheet against Navlakha and Dr. Anand Teltumbde, also accused of being a part of the maoist movement and inciting the caste based violence that took place on the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon through speeches at the Elgar Parishad conclave a day earlier on December 31, 2017.
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Bhima Koregaon inmates can barely communicate, worried about their health: Families

Bhima Koregaon inmates can barely communicate, worried about their health: Families

The Caravan / by Nileena MS

On the evening of 11 July, the 81-year-old poet Varavara Rao called his wife, Hemalatha, from the overcrowded Taloja Central Prison in Maharashtra, sounding incoherent and delirious, according to a press release circulated by his family …
Families and lawyers of others who have been imprisoned in connection to the Bhima Koregaon case have pointed out they are barely able to communicate with the inmates during the pandemic. At least four of the 11 undertrial prisoners have pre-existing medical conditions that make them vulnerable to the novel coronavirus.
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SC Adjourns State’s Appeal Seeking Setting Aside Of Gautam Navlakha’s Transit Remand Order

SC Adjourns State’s Appeal Seeking Setting Aside Of Gautam Navlakha’s Transit Remand Order

Live Law / by Sanya Talwar

The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned an appeal moved by State of Maharashtra against the Delhi High Court order setting aside Gautam Navlakha’s transit remand.
A bench of Justices Arun Mishra, S. Abdul Nazeer & Indira Banerjee allowed the State Government to file a compilation earmarking list of dates along with a convenience in the appeal which has contended that the habeas corpus petition filed by Navlakha before the High Court is not maintainable. For this purpose, the State Government has gone on to cite two Supreme Court judgements – State of Maharashtra v. Tanseem Rizwan Siddique and Saurabh Kumar v. Jailor, Koneil Jail.
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By failing to check NIA in Gautam Navlakha case, SC has undermined the Delhi HC

By failing to check NIA in Gautam Navlakha case, SC has undermined the Delhi HC

Scroll.in / by Sruthisagar Yamunan

The National Investigation Agency’s actions were designed to undermine the jurisdiction of the Delhi court.
For India’s higher judiciary, two elements of court proceedings have come to be regarded as sacrosanct. As courts of record, the High Courts and the Supreme Court pay close attention to precedent: rules established in previous legal cases play a strong role when a later case with similar circumstances is decided.
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