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Who is Gautam Navlakha?

Who is Gautam Navlakha?

By India Civil Watch

Gautam Navlakha is a Delhi-based veteran journalist, author, civil liberties, human rights and peace activist best known for his fierce and sustained critique of the Indian state’s militarism against its own citizenry in three broad zones – the northeastern states, Kashmir valley, and the central Indian forested zone in Chhattisgarh. He has been actively involved with the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) – one of India’s leading civil liberties and democratic rights defence organizations- working to protect, extend and help implement fundamental rights as guaranteed in the Indian constitution.
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How one of five activists the Pune police sought to arrest in August avoided custody

How one of five activists the Pune police sought to arrest in August avoided custody

Scroll.in / By Sruthisagar Yamunan

The Delhi High Court acted almost immediately when Gautam Navlakha challenged his transit remand.
As the four weeks of protection given to Anand Teltumbde by the Supreme Court run out on Monday, the senior professor at the Goa Institute of Management faces the possibility of arrest in the Bhima Koregaon case.
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Activist urges HC to quash FIR

Activist urges HC to quash FIR

Times of India / By PTI

MUMBAI: Civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde, named an accused by the Pune Police in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon, Monday denied all charges against him, urging the Bombay court to quash the FIR against him.
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Activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde get relief from arrest

Activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde get relief from arrest

Scroll.in / By Sroll Staff

The Bombay High Court on Friday extended relief from arrest, in the Bhima Koregaon case, to activists Gautam Navlakha till January 14 and Anand Teltumbde till December 17, The Hindu reported. The court, however, rejected Stan Swamy’s petition to quash the first information report against him.
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Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy get relief from arrest till December 14

Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy get relief from arrest till December 14

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

The Bombay High Court asked the prosecution to submit by December 4 all the relevant material in the case against the activists.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the police from arresting activists Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde and Stan Swamy till December 14, PTI reported. While Navlakha had been arrested in August in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, the homes and offices of Teltumbde and Swamy had been searched.
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Statement by Gautam Navlakha on his Release

Statement by Gautam Navlakha on his Release

Statment by Gautam Navlakha

Statement of an Urban Naxal
I wish to thank the majority and dissenting Justices of the Supreme Court for their judgment, which allowed us four weeks to seek relief in this matter, and the public-spirited citizens & lawyers of India for putting up  a spirited fight on our behalf, whose memory I will cherish. I am humbled by the solidarity, which crossed borders, rallying in our support.

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