Gautam Navlakha – Page 7

NIA highlights Gautam Navlakha’s ‘Pakistani connect’ to oppose bail in Elgar Parishad case

21/02/2023 Asha

NIA highlights Gautam Navlakha’s ‘Pakistani connect’ to oppose bail in Elgar Parishad case

21/02/2023

India Today / by Vidya

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has opposed the bail plea of Elgar Parishad accused Gautam Navlakha, claiming that he was an active member of banned terror outfit CPI (Maoist) and had links with a Pakistani secret agent.
The NIA said that Gautam Navlakha sought clemency for an ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) agent, who was arrested in the US, in an American court…
The bench of Justices AS Gadkari and PD Naik will be hearing Navlakha’s petition on February 27.
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Gautam Navlakha was introduced to Pakistan ISI General for recruitment, NIA tells Bombay High Court

21/02/2023

Bar & Bench / by Neha Joshi

The agency claimed that Navlakha was working in urban areas to unite intellectuals against government forces to defeat them “both physically and otherwise.”
Activist Gautam Navlakha was introduced to a Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) General for his recruitment, which shows his nexus to the organisation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) told the Bombay High Court on Tuesday.
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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

Gautam Navlakha withdraws plea seeking transfer from Mumbai / Allowed to speak with daughter on phone

15/02/2023 Asha

Gautam Navlakha withdraws application seeking to move location of house arrest from Mumbai to Delhi

18/02/2023

The Leaflet / by Sarah Thanawala

Withdrawing the application that sought his transfer from Mumbai to Delhi, Navlakha will now seek another place in Mumbai.
On Friday, a division bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices K.M. Joseph and B.V. Nagarathna, allowed the withdrawal of the application filed by Gautam Navlakha for the transfer of his place of house arrest from Mumbai to Delhi.
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Gautam Navlakha Withdraws Application In Supreme Court Seeking Transfer From Mumbai To Delhi

17/02/2023

Live Law / by Rintu Mariam Biju

Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, on Friday withdrew his application filed in Supreme Court seeking permission to remain in house-arrest in Delhi instead of Mumbai.
When the matter was called up first, an advocate assisting Solicitor General Tushar Mehta sought a pass over.
“…You understood what you were getting into when you are in Bombay. You accepted it, now you want a change?”, the Division Bench comprising of KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna asked, turning to the petitioner.
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Navlakha allowed to speak with daughter for 10 minutes on phone

15/02/2023

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Navlakha had filed a plea seeking to speak with his daughter, a resident of Spain. Navlakha, an accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, has been under home arrest since last November in Navi Mumbai, following orders of the Supreme Court.
A special court in Mumbai on Tuesday granted activist-journalist Gautam Navlakha permission to speak with his daughter for 10 minutes on the phone of a police personnel.
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Also read:
● Explainer: As activist Gautam Navlakha is allowed house arrest, what does this actually involve? (Scroll.in / Nov 2022)
● Stop Denying Political Prisoners the Right to Healthcare in Jails (PUDR / Sep 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)

Supreme Court extends Gautam Navlakha’s house arrest till February 17

09/01/2023 Asha

Supreme Court extends Gautam Navlakha’s house arrest

09/01/2023

The Leaflet / by Sarah Thanawala

The court granted an adjournment in the hearing of the review of its interim order granting house arrest till February 17. Senior advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan sought permission to allow Navlakha to receive an international phone call.
On Monday, a division bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices K.M. Joseph and B.V. Nagarathna, in its review of the interim order granting house arrest to Gautam Navlakha, adjourned the hearing of the matter and extended Navlakha’s house arrest till February 17.
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Gautam Navlakha Requests Permission To Attend International Call From Daughter; Supreme Court Seeks NIA Response

09/01/2023

Live Law / by Sohini Chowdhury

On Monday, Advocate, Ms. Nithya Ramakrishnan, appearing on behalf of human rights activist Gautam Navalakha, accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, who is presently in house arrest, sought the permission of the Supreme Court to receive a call from his daughter living in Spain.
The Senior Counsel apprised a Bench comprising Justice KM Joseph and Justice BV Nagarathna, that the Apex Court had permitted Navalakha to make one call per day from NIA’s phone. However, he is not permitted to make international calls.
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Also read:
● Gautam Navlakha moves HC seeking regular bail (Hindustan Times / Dec 13, 2022)
● Activist Gautam Navlakha Walks Out of Prison, Put Under House Arrest (The Wire / Nov 2022)

Number of Jailed Journalists at New Global Record, Seven Behind Bars in India

14/12/2022 Asha

Number of Jailed Journalists at New Global Record, Seven Behind Bars in India

14/12/2022

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

Six out of the seven jailed journalists are being investigated under or charged under the anti-terrorism law Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
The number of journalists across the world who have been put behind bars for practising their profession has reached a record high this year, said the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), adding that seven Indian reporters remain behind bars – a record high for the country.
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As seven journalists remain jailed, India continues to draw criticism over treatment of media: CPJ

15/12/2022

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

In its annual report, the Committee to Protect Journalists said that across the world, a record number of 363 journalists were behind bars as of December 1.
As seven journalists remain imprisoned in India as of December 1, the country continues to draw criticism over its treatment of the media, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. The press body made the comment in its annual census of jailed journalist across the globe.
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SC extends interim order granting house arrest to Gautam Navlakha till second week of January

13/12/2022 Asha

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

14/12/2022

Bar & Bench / by Neha Joshi

The Bombay High Court on December 12 issued notice to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the regular bail plea filed by Delhi activist Gautam Navlakha who is one of the accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case.
Navlakha moved the High Court after a special NIA court rejected his bail plea on September 5 this year.
A bench of Justices AS Gadkari and PD Naik sought the response of NIA and posted the matter for further consideration on January 9, 2023.
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Supreme Court extends interim order granting house arrest to Gautam Navlakha

14/12/2022

The Leaflet / by Sarah Thanawala

The Court allowed its grant of house custody to extend till the second week of January.
ON Tuesday, a division bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices K.M. Joseph and B.V. Nagarathna, in its review of the interim order granting house arrest to Gautam Navlakha, extended the grant of house custody until the second week of January.
Journalist and human rights activist Navlakha, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, is charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. During his custody as an undertrial prisoner, a charge sheet was filed on October 9, 2020, and charges are yet to be filed by the court.
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SC Extends House Arrest of Activist Gautam Navlakha Till Second Week of January

13/12/2022

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

The 70-year-old was named as an accused in the Elgar Parishad case by the National Investigation Agency, which has also arrested several activists, scholars and lawyers in connection with it.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 13, extended till second week of January its interim order placing activist Gautam Navlakha under house arrest.
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SC further extends activist Gautam Navlakha’s house arrest

13/12/2022

India Today / Maneesha Mathur

Human rights activist Gautam Navlakha’s house arrest has been extended till the second week of January. He is an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case.
The house arrest of human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, has been extended till the second week of January. The matter was listed before the Supreme Court for interim orders.
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Also read:
● Gautam Navlakha moves HC seeking regular bail (Hindustan Times / Dec 13, 2022)
● Activist Gautam Navlakha Walks Out of Prison, Put Under House Arrest (The Wire / Nov 2022)

Activist Gautam Navlakha moves Bombay High Court seeking regular bail

12/12/2022 Asha

by Bar & Bench (Dec 13, 2022):
#SupremeCourt to hear plea by Bhima Koregaon accused Gautam Navlakha, in connection with the terms of his house arrest allowed by the top court.

Gautam Navlakha moves HC seeking regular bail

13/12/2022

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

Civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha on Monday moved the Bombay high court seeking regular bail in the Elgar Parishad–Bhima Koregaon violence case.
Earlier, a special NIA court had on September 5 rejected the regular bail plea of the 70-year-old, who is presently under house arrest on medical grounds in Navi Mumbai.
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Bombay High Court Issues Notice On Gautam Navlakha’s Bail Appeal In Bhima Koregaon case

12/12/2022

Live Law / by Amisha Shrivastava

Journalist and activist Gautam Navlakha, who is an accused in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case, has approached the Bombay High Court in appeal against rejection of his bail application by the trial court.
The division bench of Justice AS Gadkari and Justice P. D. Naik on Monday issued notice to the NIA in the case.
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Also read:
● Activist Gautam Navlakha Walks Out of Prison, Put Under House Arrest (The Wire / Nov 2022)
● Supreme Court dismisses NIA’s application for vacating its order granting house arrest to Gautam Navlakha (The Leaflet / Nov 2022)
● Gautam Navlakha’s bail plea rejected by special NIA court (Scroll.in / Sep 2022)

Bhima Koregaon Accused (BK16) | 1 Dead, 1 on House Arrest, 3 on Bail: What of the Rest?

30/11/2022 Asha

The Quint / by Rohini Roy

The remaining 11 continue to languish in jail — Who are they and what is the status of the case against them?
Anti-caste writer Anand Teltumbde, who walked out of jail on Saturday, 26 November, after he was granted bail on merits in connection with the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case said:
“I am definitely happy. It has been 30 months that I have been in prison. The sad part, however, is that we had to spend time in jail after being booked in a fake case.”
In the same case, two others, poet Varavara Rao and lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj – were granted bail earlier due to different reasons, while academic Gautam Navlakha was allowed house arrest on health grounds by a 19 November Supreme Court order.
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Also read:
● As Bhima Koregaon case completes its fourth anniversary, State reprisal is writ large in its twists and turns (The Leaflet / June 2022)
● Bhima Koregaon: Who’s who of those arrested and the developments in the case pertaining to each (The Leaflet / June 2022)

Activist Gautam Navlakha released from jail, put under house arrest

19/11/2022 Asha

CPI(M) library, Agroli village: Gautam Navlakha’s new address during house arrest stay

20/11/2022

The Telegraph / by pti

This is for the first time that I saw so many police personnel and media persons in here, says villager.
A nondescript library in a village in Navi Mumbai, a satellite city of Mumbai, is suddenly buzzing with activity as police personnel stand guard amid mounted surveillance, but villagers, unaware about who Gautam Navlakha is, discuss in hushed tone about the “powerful” occupant of the ground-plus-one-storey structure.
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Activist Gautam Navlakha Walks Out of Prison, Put Under House Arrest

20/11/2022

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

Activist Gautam Navlakha walked out of prison on Saturday evening, November 19, and was taken to a building in Navi Mumbai where he will be living under house arrest.
His release from Taloja prison after more than two years came nine days after the Supreme Court earlier this month granted his plea seeking house arrest on medical grounds.
Navlakha walked out of prison around 6 pm on Saturday. A police team took him to a building in Belapur-Agroli area of Navi Mumbai where he would be staying.
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Gautam Navlakha released from jail, put under house arrest

19/11/2022

Scroll.in / by Scroll Staff

The Supreme Court has allowed the activist accused in the Bhima Koregaon case to be shifted from jail on grounds of ill health and poor facilities in prison.
Activist Gautam Navlakha was on Saturday evening released from Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai, where he had been lodged for more than two years, PTI reported.
After being released around 6 pm, he was taken to a premises in Belapur-Agroli area of Navi Mumbai, where he will be kept under house arrest, an unidentified police official told the news agency.
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Activist Gautam Navlakha released from jail, to be placed under house arrest

19/11/2022

The Indian Express / by Express Web Desk

More than a week after the Supreme Court’s order, Bhima Koregaon case accused Gautam Navlakha was Saturday released from Taloja Central Prison. He will now be placed under house arrest at a community hall in Navi Mumbai owned by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
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SC Refuses To Recall Order Allowing House Arrest Of Gautam Navlakha

18/11/2022 Asha

Supreme Court dismisses NIA’s application for vacating its order granting house arrest to Gautam Navlakha

19/11/2022

The Leaflet / by Sarah Thanawala

The court reaffirmed its order placing Navlakha in house custody, with additional security measures, within 24 hours of the pronouncement of the order.
On Friday, a division bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justices K.M. Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy, dismissed the National Investigation Agency’s (‘NIA’) application to vacate the order of the bench, passed on November 10, which allowed Gautam Navlakha to be placed in house arrest for a period of one month under certain restrictions.
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SC Refuses To Recall Order Allowing House Arrest Of Gautam Navlakha, Directs NIA To Execute It In 24 Hours

18/11/2022

Live Law / by Rintu Mariam Biju

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the application filed by the National Investigation Agency seeking to vacate the order allowing the shifting of activist Gautam Navlakha to house arrest from the Taloja prison in Mumbai where he is lodged in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case.
A bench comprising Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy also engrafted certain additional conditions for the house arrest of the septuagenarian, such as the sealing of the kitchen door leading to the exit point and the locking of the grills of the hall.
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by Bar & Bench (Nov 18):
Gautam Navlakha hearing
Solicitor General (SG): The public library belongs to Communist Party
Justice KM Joseph: It is a recognised party. What is the issue?
SG: If it does not shock you, what can I say.
SC: No it does not shock us.

SC rejects plea by NIA against shifting Gautam Navlakha from jail to house arrest; directs compliance in 24 hours

18/11/2022

Bar & Bench / by Debayan Roy

However, the bench comprising Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy mandated some additional safeguards to ensure that the house arrest is not misused.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against an earlier order of the Court directing Bhima Koregaon accused Gautam Navlakha to be placed under house arrest instead of keeping him in jail [Gautam Navlakha v NIA].
The bench comprising Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy directed that the order be complied within 24 hours.
However, the Court mandated some additional safeguards to ensure that the house arrest is not misused.
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Supreme Court To Hear Pleas Of Gautam Navlakha & NIA In Relation To House Arrest Tomorrow

17/11/2022 Asha

Thread by Bar & Bench (Nov 18, 2022)
#SupremeCourt to shortly hear separate applications moved by #BhimaKoregaon accused Gautam Navlakha, in which he alleged delay to implement SC’s order granting him #housearrest, and the NIA’s plea to cancel his house arrest due to bias in medical records among other grounds.

Supreme Court To Hear Pleas Of Gautam Navlakha & NIA In Relation To House Arrest Tomorrow

17/11/2022

Live Law / by Sohini Chowdhury

On Thursday, the Bench led by CJI, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud directed two applications, one filed by activist Gautam Navalakha and another to be filed during the course of the day by the National Investigation Agency, to be listed tomorrow before the Bench led by Justice K.M. Joseph
Last week, the Court had allowed Navlakha’s request to be placed under house arrest in consideration of his medical condition. However, the Special NIA Court at Mumbai yesterday refused to pass orders to execute the house arrest of Navlakha , after the NIA objected to the location of the house chosen by Navlakha.
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Supreme Court to hear plea of Gautam Navlakha, probe agency on Friday

17/11/2022

The Telegraph / by Web Desk

The bench took note of submissions of a senior lawyer, appearing for the activist, that the apex court’s direction to keep him in house arrest has not been complied with so far.
The Supreme Court agreed to list for hearing on Friday a fresh plea of activist Gautam Navlakha, who has not been shifted to house arrest despite the apex court’s direction in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case.
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Also read:
● Supreme Court allows Gautam Navlakha’s plea seeking house arrest (The Leaflet / Nov 10, 2022)