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Activist Navlakha files anticipatory bail plea

Activist Navlakha files anticipatory bail plea

The Times of India / by Asseem Shaikh

PUNE: Activist Gautam Navlakha (67) on Tuesday filed anticipatory bail application in the special UAPA court stating that the city police never questioned him in the Elgar Parishad case since August 28, 2018, and that he was willing to cooperate with the investigation officer.
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Activist Gautam Navlakha moves Pune sessions court for anticipatory bail

Activist Gautam Navlakha moves Pune sessions court for anticipatory bail

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Activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence case, on Tuesday moved the Pune sessions court for anticipatory bail, PTI reported. The court said it will hear his plea on November 7. The Bombay High Court had on Monday asked Navlakha to approach the Pune sessions court for anticipatory bail.
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Punishing dissent: NCRB data shows why sedition must go

Punishing dissent: NCRB data shows why sedition must go


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The Financial Express / by The Financial Express

Cases recorded as offences against the state in the National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB’s) latest Crime in India Statistics report (for 2017)—such offences were separately recorded by NCRB only since 2014—saw a jump of 23%, from 6,986 cases registered in 2016 to 9,013 registered in 2016.
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State: Probe to unearth deep-rooted conspiracy

State: Probe to unearth deep-rooted conspiracy

The Times of India / by Vishwas Kothari

Pune: District government pleader Ujjwala Pawar, while initiating her counter-submissions to the bail pleas, argued that the Supreme Court and the Bombay high court had concluded in successive rulings since the September 28, 2018, judgment in the Romila Thapar petition that the ongoing investigation was to unearth a deep-rooted conspiracy that went beyond Elgar Parishad and the subsequent caste clashes at Koregaon Bhima.
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Activist Gautam Navlakha’s interim protection from arrest extended by 4 weeks

Activist Gautam Navlakha’s interim protection from arrest extended by 4 weeks

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The Supreme Court also granted Navlakha permission to approach an appropriate court for pre-arrest bail.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended by four weeks the interim protection from arrest granted to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon case, Bar and Bench reported. It also granted Navlakha permission to approach an appropriate court seeking pre-arrest bail.
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SC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Gautam Navlakha Till Oct 15

SC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Gautam Navlakha Till Oct 15

Live Law / by Livelaw News Network

The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to activist Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon case. The bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta directed the Maharashtra police to produce the materials collected against him in the investigation so far and posted the matter on October 15 at 3 PM.
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Fifth SC judge recuses himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea

Fifth SC judge recuses himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea

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Justice Ravindra Bhat was on the bench with Justices Arun Mishra and Vineet Saran. The case will now be heard on Friday.
Supreme Court judge Ravindra Bhat on Thursday recused himself from hearing activist Gautam Navlakha’s plea to quash a first information report filed against him in the Bhima Koregaon case, Live Law reported. He is the fifth top court judge to have opted out of the case. Navlakha has challenged a Bombay High Court order rejecting his petition.
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