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. Read more
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. Read more
SC extends interim order granting house arrest to Gautam Navlakha till second week of January
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
Gautam Navlakha 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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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). Read more
SC Refuses To Recall Order Allowing House Arrest Of Gautam Navlakha
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
Supreme Court To Hear Pleas Of Gautam Navlakha & NIA In Relation To House Arrest Tomorrow
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. Read more
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. Read more
Is it just their relentless opposition to State policies that gets the NIA’s goat, or is it also their privileged background?
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Sometimes they do, even for the most creative minds.
Take Maharashtra’s Taloja Jail, on the outskirts of Mumbai. For the last almost three years, it’s been home to some of the country’s most valuable public intellectuals, and also the site of their steady deterioration. The Bhima Koregaon trial is yet to begin, but the 16 accused have already been punished, by the NIA that’s handling their case and the jail authorities. Read more
Court directs top cop to look into the mosquito menace in Taloja prison
16/11/22
Free Press Journal / by Staff Reporter
In his plea made on Tuesday, he said that there is no reply from the jail’s superintendent despite the court’s direction to the authority to file one.
Following an application by civil rights activist and accused in Bhima-Koregaon case, Anand Teltumbde, on Tuesday, a special court has directed the Deputy Inspector General of police (DIG, Prisons) to look into the mosquito menace in Taloja prison as the jail superintendent has not complied with previous orders to take precautions to control the situation despite repeated directions. Read more
Gautam Navlakha’s Release Delayed Due to ‘Safety Concerns’ About Premises for House Arrest
16/11/2022
The Wire / by pti
Actor Suhasini Mulay appeared in the court on Wednesday and said she was standing as surety for the activist.
The release of activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case, was delayed yet again on Wednesday as the National Investigation Agency (NIA) raised safety concerns about the premises in Navi Mumbai where he had proposed to live during his house arrest. Read more
Supreme Court Waives Requirement Of Solvency Certificate For Gautam Navlakha To Avail House Arrest [read order]
16/11/2022
Live Law / by Livelaw News Network
The Supreme Court on Tuesday waived the condition that activist Gautam Navlakha, who is lodged in Mumbai prison in the Bhima Koregaon case, should obtain a solvency certificate for availing the benefit of house arrest.
Last week, the Court had allowed Navlakha’s request to be placed under house arrest in consideration of his medical condition. However, the Court had imposed several conditions, including the requirement to furnish surety of Rs 2 lakhs. Read more
SC alters conditions to facilitate house arrest
16/11/2022
Hindustan Times / by Abraham Thomas
The Supreme Court on Tuesday waived the requirement of a solvency certificate in a case involving activist Gautam Navlakha who was allowed to be placed under house arrest
The Supreme Court on Tuesday waived the requirement of a solvency certificate in a case involving activist Gautam Navlakha, who received relief from the top court and was allowed to be placed under house arrest but whose release from jail was delayed over the certificate and other documents. Read more
Civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha’s payment for house arrest expenses rejected by CP, Navi Mumbai
15/11/2022
Free Press Journal / by Staff Reporter
A special court was informed about the rejection by Navlakha’s lawyer on Monday. Navlakha’s plea for house arrest was permitted by the Supreme Court last Thursday.
In what could mean a delay for civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha’s release from prison and into house arrest, the Commissioner of Police, Navi Mumbai has rejected a demand draft payment of Rs 2,40,000 made for police deployment expenses during house arrest. Read more
4 days after SC order, activist Navlakha yet to be placed under house arrest
14/11/2022
Midday.com / by pti
However, till Monday evening he was still in prison as formalities for his release could not be completed.
Jailed human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, who was last week allowed to be placed under house arrest for a month by the Supreme Court owing to his medical condition, is yet to walk out of Navi Mumbai’s Taloja prison, where he is lodged in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, as formalities for his release are still under process. Read more
Explainer: As activist Gautam Navlakha is allowed house arrest, what does this actually involve?
11/11/2022
Scroll.in / by Umang Poddar
When allowing him to leave Taloja jail for house detention, the Supreme Court on Thursday listed stringent conditions he would have to follow.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, who has been in Taloja jail since April 2020 in the Bhima Koregaon case, to be placed under house arrest for a month. The activist, who is 70 years old, said that he was suffering from various health ailments and had asked to be shifted out of jail.
While ordering house arrests, courts have the power to impose conditions as they deem fit, so that the trial is not hampered. In a 2021 case, the Supreme Court ruled that house arrests can also be used as a form of detention. Read more
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Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon accused struggle to find house in city
11/11/2022
Hindustan Times / by Charul Shah and Gautam S Mengle
Getting a house in and around the city has been a challenge – both due to financial reasons as well as the fact that they were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and charged under sections of the UAPA for alleged Naxalite links
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Elgar Parishad – Bhima Koregaon violence case accused Gautam Navlakha for a month’s house arrest on account of his old age and ill health. Read more
