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Bombay HC directs NIA to file reply on Gautam Navlakha’s fresh bail application, next hearing on July 25

Bombay HC directs NIA to file reply on Gautam Navlakha’s fresh bail application, next hearing on July 25

The Leaflet / by Sarah Thanawala

On Wednesday, a division Bench of the Bombay High Court comprising Justices A.S. Gadkari and Shivkumar Dige heard a fresh bail application filed by journalist and human rights activist Gautam Navlakha.
The Bench also directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file its reply. The NIA counsel told the court that the reply would be filed by this evening or tomorrow.
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Who are the acclaimed ‘BK-16’? / HRDs and families await justice, five years down

Who are the acclaimed ‘BK-16’? / HRDs and families await justice, five years down

HRDs and families await justice, five years down

22/06/2023

cjp / by Sabah Maharaj

Faulty investigation and severe loopholes in investigation, surrounds the controversial BK-16 case. International outcry has not helped move the trial five years down even while the targeted languish, families await the return of their loved ones
In June 2021, European Union parliamentarians, Nobel Laureates, renowned academics, and internationally known figures wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, the then Chief Justice of India as well as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, and other authorities in India, demanding to the release of political prisoners arrested with relation to the Elgar Parishad and Bhima Koregaon incident.
Amidst contested accusations of an anti-India conspiracy, militancy, and violence, five long years have passed since the BK-16 have been imprisoned without trial.
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Who are the acclaimed ‘BK-16’?

22/06/2023

cjp / by CJP Team

Five years have passed, and human rights defenders (HRDs) and their families continue to await justice.

Surendra Gadling
Status: Detained without trial
Charges:Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) since June 2018
Location: Taloja Central Prison, Mumbai

Gadling is a human rights lawyer and a Dalit activist. Over time, Gadling established himself as a keen advocate and a key figure in cases related to extrajudicial killings, police misconduct, false accusations, and injustices against Dalits and Adivasis in the region…
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Also read:
Five years behind bars for five activists – Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice! – Various statements

CPJ calls on Biden administration to press India prime minister on media freedom during visit

CPJ calls on Biden administration to press India prime minister on media freedom during visit

By Committee to Protect Journalists (CPI)

Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S. from June 21 to 24 and meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, the Committee to Protect Journalists on Wednesday issued the following statement calling on the U.S. government to urge India to end its media crackdown and release the six journalists arbitrarily detained in retaliation for their work:
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Also read:
Number of Jailed Journalists at New Global Record, Seven Behind Bars in India (The Wire / Dec 2022)


Gautam Navlakha

Gautam Navlakha has a tremendous archive of writings from the 1980s to the present, documented by The Friends of Gautam Navlakha.
To read some of his recent writings and a full list of his articles with Economic & Political Weekly, the NewsClick newsportal and the platform Sanhati visit: Gautam Navlakha – Journalist, Human Rights Defender, Political Prisoner

Bombay High Court seeks NIA response on Gautam Navlakha plea for regular bail

Bombay High Court seeks NIA response on Gautam Navlakha plea for regular bail

Bombay High Court seeks NIA response on Gautam Navlakha plea for regular bail

12/06/2023

Bar & Bench / by Neha Joshi

The special NIA court had rejected Navlakha’s plea for the second time, after re-hearing the same as directed by the High Court.
The Bombay High Court Monday issued notice to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on a bail plea filed by activist Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon violence case of 2018.
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Gautam Navlakha Again Moves Bombay High Court Seeking Bail In Bhima Koregaon Case, Notice Issued To NIA

12/06/2023

Live Law / by Sharmeen Hakim

The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notice to the NIA on a fresh bail application filed by senior journalist Gautam Navlakha arrested in the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad case and is accused of having CPI(Maoist) links.
The division bench headed by Justice AS Gadkari will now hear the matter on June 28, 2023.
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Bombay High Court Issues Notice In Bhima Koregaon Accused Gautam Navlakha’s Bail Plea, NIA To File Reply In 2 Weeks

12/06/2023

Lawbeat / by Raj Bhojani

Navlakha has filed the appeal against the order of the special court which rejected his bail plea twice.
The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notice to the National Investigation Agency and sought its reply in the bail appeal filed by the Bhima Koregaon accused Gautam Navlakha.
The division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and SG Dige asked the counsel for both parties to point out the order in which all the correct facts are recorded because there were multiple orders passed in the case.
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Bombay HC issues notice to NIA in Gautam Navlakha’s fresh appeal against rejection of bail plea

12/06/2023

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notice to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) seeking its response to Elgaar Parishad case accused Gautam Navlakha’s fresh appeal challenging a special NIA court’s order that had rejected his bail application in April this year.
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Also read:
Gautam Navlakha moves HC against NIA court’s rejection of bail plea (The Indian Express / April 2023)
Bombay HC quashes order rejecting bail plea of Navlakha by special court, orders expeditious rehearing (Sabrang / March 2023)

NIA opposes Gautam Navlakha’s plea for moving house arrest from Mumbai to Alibag

NIA opposes Gautam Navlakha’s plea for moving house arrest from Mumbai to Alibag

NIA opposes Gautam Navlakha’s plea for moving house arrest from Mumbai to Alibag

15/05/2023

The Leaflet / by Sarah Thanawala

The State opposed the change in the place of house arrest on the grounds of being “cumbersome” and creating a “security risk”. It also alleged that the plea demonstrated that Navlakha’s earlier arguments seeking house arrest on medical grounds was a farce because there is no super-speciality hospital in the vicinity of the newly proposed venue of house arrest. Senior advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan, representing Navlakha, opposed these arguments. The Bench has granted Navlakha time to search for other appropriate houses in Mumbai.
On Monday, a division Bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices K.M. Joseph and B.V. Nagarathna, allowed journalist and human rights activist Gautam Navlakha time until August 18 to find another suitable place for house arrest in Mumbai.
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Supreme Court Grants Time To NIA To File Counter Affidavit Regarding Change In Location of Gautam Navlakha’s House Arrest

15/05/2023

Live Law / by LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK

The Supreme Court, on Monday, granted four weeks’ time to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file a counter affidavit with respect to the change in location of house arrest of the human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case.
A Bench comprising Justice KM Joseph and Justice BV Nagarathna was considering an application filed by him seeking to shift his house arrest location in Mumbai.
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SC to hear activist Navlakha’s plea on Monday for shifting out from Mumbai public library under house arrest

15/05/2023

The Telegraph / by pti

The top court also directed Gautam Navlakha to deposit another Rs 8 lakh toward expenses for making available police personnel for his security
The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday a plea of activist Gautam Navlakha, who is under house arrest in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, that he be shifted from a public library in Mumbai to some other place.
A bench of Justices K M Joseph and B V Nagarathna had on April 28 directed the CBI to file its reply within two weeks on Navlaka’s petition seeking to be shifted from the public library to some other place in the city as the facility needs to be vacated.
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Supreme Court directs Gautam Navlakha to pay INR 8 lakhs as cost of deploying police for his house arrest (The Leaflet / April 2023)
Explainer: As activist Gautam Navlakha is allowed house arrest, what does this actually involve? (Scroll.in / Nov 2022)

SC directs Gautam Navlakha to pay INR 8 lakhs as cost of deploying police for his house arrest

SC directs Gautam Navlakha to pay INR 8 lakhs as cost of deploying police for his house arrest

Gautam Navlakha

Supreme Court directs Gautam Navlakha to pay INR 8 lakhs as cost of deploying police for his house arrest

28/04/2023

The Leaflet / by Sarah Thanawala

The NIA has been directed by the court to file a counter affidavit on Navlakha’s plea for change of place of house arrest to another part of Mumbai.
On Friday, the Supreme Court directed Gautam Navlakha to pay INR 8 lakhs towards the cost of deploying police personnel for his house arrest, which was granted to him by the court in November last year.
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Supreme Court Asks Gautam Navlakha To Deposit Rs 8 Lakhs Towards Surveillance And Security Expenses For House Arrest

28/04/2023

Live Law / by Sohini Chowdhury

The Supreme Court, on Friday, directed human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, to deposit Rs 8 lakhs to meet the expenses of surveillance and costs as indicated in its order dated 10.11.2022.
On 10th November, 2022 the Court ordered to move Navlakha, 73, from Taloja Central Prison to house arrest, considering his advanced age and multiple multiple ailments. In that order, the court had recorded that while he was on house arrest, the expense of surveillance, approximately Rs. 2.4 lakhs, would be borne by Navlakha himself.
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Also read:
Gautam Navlakha moves SC seeking change of address for house arrest (The Telegraph / April 2023)
Explainer: As activist Gautam Navlakha is allowed house arrest, what does this actually involve? (Scroll.in / Nov 2022)

Gautam Navlakha moves HC against NIA court’s rejection of bail plea

Gautam Navlakha moves HC against NIA court’s rejection of bail plea

Gautam Navlakha moves HC against NIA court’s rejection of bail plea

27/04/2023

The Indian Express / by The Indian Express

Navlakha, who was arrested on April 14, 2020, has been incarcerated since then. Since November, he has been under house arrest in Navi Mumbai.
Elgaar Parishad case accused Gautam Navlakha recently approached the Bombay High Court with a fresh appeal challenging a special NIA court’s order that had rejected his bail application earlier this month. Navlakha’s previous bail plea, filed before the special court, was rejected last September. Following this, he had filed an appeal before the Bombay High Court.
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Gautam Navlakha moves HC for bail again

27/04/2023

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

Last year, he had filed an appeal in HC when the special court rejected his bail application in September 2022.
Mumbai: Gautam Navlakha, one of the accused in the Elgar Parishad case has approached the Bombay high court for a second time and appealed against the rejection of his bail application by a special NIA court earlier this month. Last year, he had filed an appeal in HC when the special court rejected his bail application in September 2022.
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Also read:
Bombay HC quashes order rejecting bail plea of Navlakha by special court, orders expeditious rehearing (Sabrang / March 2023)
Will the bail granted to Anand Teltumbde help others in the Bhima Koregaon case to get out of jail? (Scroll.in / Nov 2022)

Gautam Navlakha moves SC seeking change of address for house arrest

Gautam Navlakha moves SC seeking change of address for house arrest

Gautam Navlakha

The Telegraph / by pti

The bench was told by counsel for the activist, that the place, where he is under house arrest, is a public library and needs to be vacated
Activist Gautam Navlakha Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking to be shifted from the public library in Mumbai, where he is under house arrest in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, to some other place in the city.
Navlakha’s counsel told a bench of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna that the public library needed to be vacated.
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Also read:
Explainer: As activist Gautam Navlakha is allowed house arrest, what does this actually involve? (Scroll.in / Nov 2022)
All I ask is an hour to breathe in fresh air, soak in sun, rights activist Gautam Navlakha in plea (Free Press Journal / Dec 2021)

Release Gautam Navlakha Immediately! Release all political prisoners. / BK16 Solidarity

Release Gautam Navlakha Immediately! Release all political prisoners. / BK16 Solidarity

By Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR)

Today, 14 April 2023 marks four years, seven months and eighteen days since Gautam Navlakha’s arrest on 28 August 2018. A well-known human rights activist, respected journalist and writer of long standing, Gautam has now been incarcerated for three years since 14 April 2020 when he surrendered at the NIA office in Delhi.
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Protest the Arrests of Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde: Demand release of the 11 arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case (PUDR / April 2020)
Protest and Solidarity Statements on the arrests of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha (free-them-all.net / April 2020)


Gautam Navlakha

Gautam Navlakha has a tremendous archive of writings from the 1980s to the present, documented by The Friends of Gautam Navlakha.
To read some of his recent writings and a full list of his articles with Economic & Political Weekly, the NewsClick newsportal and the platform Sanhati visit: Gautam Navlakha – Journalist, Human Rights Defender, Political Prisoner


#BK16: Solidarity in New York, Berlin and Amsterdam

14/04/2023

By IndienKoGruppe / @IndienKoGruppe (April 14):

Freedom for political prisoners in India. “Dissent is the safety valve of democracy” (Supreme Court of India) Solidarity from New York, #FreeBK16
#BK16 solidarity from Berlin Freedom for political prisoners in India. Dissent is no crime, it is “the safety valve of democracy”
Ambedkar Jayanthi in Amsterdam, in solidarity with Bhima Koregaon activists in jail. #FreeBK16
Petition by Amnesty International: Act now to demand the release of the BK16!
Since 2018, Indian authorities have arrested 16 activists under a draconian anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in connection with the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case. 11 of them continue to languish in prison without trial. The repression of activists must end.

INDIAN AUTHORITIES MUST RELEASE ALL IMPRISONED ACTIVISTS IN THE BK16 CASE!
Act now to urge the Union Home Minister of India, Amit Shah to:
– Drop all charges against the 16 activists and immediately release the 12 who remain in detention
– Pending their release, ensure that they are granted prompt, regular, and unrestricted access to medical care and other basic necessities
– Repeal or substantially amend the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Read more / sign AI statement

Gautam Navlakha was active member of banned terrorist says special court while rejecting bail plea [read order]

Gautam Navlakha was active member of banned terrorist says special court while rejecting bail plea [read order]

Gautam Navlakha

Reasonable grounds for believing accusations about Gautam Navlakha being CPI-Maoist member: Court

14/04/2023

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Navlakha was arrested on April 14, 2020, by the NIA and has been under house arrest since November 2022.
IN ITS detailed order rejecting bail to 69-year-old Gautam Navlakha in the Elgaar Parishad case, the special court in Mumbai has said there is prima facie evidence of a nexus between him and Syed Gulam Nabi Fai, who was convicted by a US court in 2012 for links with Pakistani spy agency ISI. The court said there are reasonable grounds for believing accusations against Navlakha, including that he is a member of the banned organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist).
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Gautam Navlakha was active member of banned terrorist group involved in attacks against security forces: Mumbai court [read order]

13/04/2023

Bar & Bench / by Neha Joshi

Special judge Rajesh Katariya opined that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accusations against Navlakha are prima facie true.
Bhima Koregaon case accused Gautam Navlakha was a member of banned terrorist organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist), which attacked and killed many government security forces, a Mumbai court held while rejecting the activist’s bail plea.
In an order uploaded on Wednesday, Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) judge Rajesh Katariya opined that there were reasonable grounds for believing that the accusations against Navlakha were prima facie true.
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Also read:
Bombay HC quashes order rejecting bail plea of Navlakha by special court, orders expeditious rehearing (Sabrang / March 2023)