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Why Hany Babu Writes From Prison

Why Hany Babu Writes From Prison

The Wire / by Sukanya Shantha

July 28, 2025 marks the fifth year of Babu’s arrest. In the past five years, he has written several times to his wife, daughter and other family members.
The best way to harm an academic is to simply lock them out of their computer and deny them access to their years of research. This is exactly what had happened to Hany Babu M.T, a professor at the Delhi University, when the Pune police had first raided his house on September 10, 2019. Ten months later, on July 28, 2020, Babu was arrested, as one of the 16 persons implicated in the Elgar Parishad case.
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Delhi University Professor Hany Babu Marks Five Years in Jail Without Trial in Bhima Koregaon Case (FOEJ / Jul 2025)
SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail (The Wire / Jul 2025)
Many Prisoners at Taloja Jail Not Produced Before Court For Years, Reveals Survey by Surendra Gadling and Sagar Gorkhe (The Wire / Feb 2025)
How Long Is Too Long for an Undertrial Prisoner To Be Detained? (The Wire | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)
In Taloja Central Jail, interviews with over 300 undertrial prisoners show denial of rights (The Leaflet | by Hany Babu & Surendra Gadling | Mar 2025)
▪ How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners

Authors: Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia
Publishing Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Pluto Press
Pages: 247
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Delhi University Professor Hany Babu Marks Five Years in Jail Without Trial in Bhima Koregaon Case

Delhi University Professor Hany Babu Marks Five Years in Jail Without Trial in Bhima Koregaon Case


Hany Babu completes five years in prison without bail, trial

28/07/2025

Maktoobmedia / by Maktoob Staff

Delhi University professor and noted academic Dr. Hany Babu, who is one of the UAPA prisoners in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, completed five years of incarceration on Monday, 28 July, 2025.
On 28 July, 2020, the National Investigation Agency arrested Babu, an anti-caste activist and a staunch proponent of social justice.
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Delhi University Professor Hany Babu Marks Five Years in Jail Without Trial in Bhima Koregaon Case

28/07/2025

FOEJ / by FOEJ Desk

Delhi University professor and noted academic Dr. Hany Babu completed five years in prison on Monday, 28 July 2025, in connection with the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case.
Babu, a prominent anti-caste activist and advocate for social justice, was arrested on 28 July 2020 by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
Babu is among several Dalit and Adivasi rights activists accused by authorities of inciting violence through speeches made on 31 December 2017 at the Elgar Parishad event in Pune.
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SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail (The Wire / Jul 2025)
‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family (Scroll.in / Jul 2025)

SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail

SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail

SC Allows Hany Babu to Approach Trial or High Court For Bail

16/07/2025

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

On Wednesday, Babu’s counsel submitted to the top court that he had undergone five years as an undertrial and withdrawn the special leave petition to move the high court.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 16) granted liberty to former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu to approach either the trial court or the high court to seek bail in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad conspiracy case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act over alleged Maoist links, LiveLaw reported.
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Hany Babu To Approach Trial Court Or HC, Or Revive Withdrawn SLP For Bail

16/07/2025

Live Law / by Gursimran Kaur Bakshi

The Supreme Court today (July 16) granted liberty to former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu to approach either the trial court or the High Court seeking bail in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad conspiracy case under the UAPA over alleged Maoist links.
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‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family (Scroll.in / Jul 2025)
Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing For Hany Babu’s Application In Bhima Koregaon Case (Live Law / June 2025)

Thought Police: Is Penalising Dissent The New Normal In Indian Universities?

Thought Police: Is Penalising Dissent The New Normal In Indian Universities?

Outlook / by Apeksha Priyadarshini

Are Indian universities turning into suffocating spaces where constant censorship and surveillance is leaving no room for protests or dissenting voices?
… Academics and intellectuals, having anything to say that is remotely critical of the current regime, are wilfully thrown under the bus by their own institutions. Worse, institutions now lead the mob hounding individuals who exercise their right to free expression—a fundamental right enshrined in the constitution.
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Daring, Fearless and Kind, Father Stan Swamy Remains a Beacon of Resistance

Daring, Fearless and Kind, Father Stan Swamy Remains a Beacon of Resistance

The Wire / by Hany Babu, Jyoti Jagtap, Mahesh Raut, Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe, Surendra Gadling

On the fourth anniversary of Father Stan’s death due to alleged medical negligence in prison, his co-defendants in jail have vowed to lead a hunger strike.
On July 5, 2021, Father Stan Swamy left us, succumbing to failing health aggravated by the deliberate denial of medical care by a repressive state as part of its devious strategy in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case. Four years have passed since this institutional murder of Father Stan. We seethe in indignation on the very memory of this day, when the real, violent, blood-thirsty face of the state unravelled to one and all.
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‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family

‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family

Scroll.in / Mekhala Saran

On July 28, Delhi University professor 57-year-old Hany Babu will complete five years of incarceration.
When the National Investigation Agency came for Babu in 2020, India was battling the Covid-19 virus, which is known to fester and multiply in densely packed spaces, such as prison cells.
The Delhi University professor, arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case, has been in jail for five years with no trial in sight.
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Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing For Hany Babu’s Application In Bhima Koregaon Case (Live Law / June 2025)
HC questions maintainability of Hany Babu’s fresh bail plea (Hindustan Times / May 2025)
BK-16 PRISON DIARIES: JENNY ROWENA ON THE FEAR OF PRISONS AND THE BRAHMINICAL SYSTEM BEHIND IT (The Polis Project / June 2024)

Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing For Hany Babu’s Application In Bhima Koregaon Case

Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing For Hany Babu’s Application In Bhima Koregaon Case

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Live Law / by Live Law News Network

The bench said that the applicant cannot seek urgent listing during the vacations when he could have approached the Court during the regular working days.
… Last month, the High Court observed that the Supreme Court’s order allowing the withdrawal did not reserve his liberty to approach the High Court. Hence, the High Court said that Babu was required to seek clarification from the Supreme Court.
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Why Bela Trivedi retired from Supreme Court as a deeply unpopular judge (Scroll.in / May 2025)
HC questions maintainability of Hany Babu’s fresh bail plea (Hindustan Times / May 2025)
How Long Is Too Long for an Undertrial Prisoner To Be Detained? (The Wire | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)

Why Bela Trivedi retired from Supreme Court as a deeply unpopular judge

Why Bela Trivedi retired from Supreme Court as a deeply unpopular judge

Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project

Scroll.in / by Vineet Bhalla

Over her four-year tenure in the court, Trivedi developed a reputation for rarely granting bail, locking horns with lawyers, and favouring the BJP.
Trivedi was elevated to the Supreme Court from the Gujarat High Court in August 2021. According to a study by the Supreme Court Observer, till October 2024, almost 40% of the judgements authored by her as a Supreme Court judge were in criminal law matters – an unusually large number.
Her track record in many of these showed that she went against the oft-repeated adage by the Supreme Court that “bail is the rule, jail is the exception”.
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Ex-DU prof Hany Babu withdraws bail plea in Supreme Court (Hindustan Times / May 2024)
Contrary To SC’s Rules Of Assignment, At Least 8 Politically Sensitive Cases Moved To One Judge In 4 Months (article 14 / Dec 2023)
‘Ominous portents’: Why High Court staying its own bail orders in Bhima Koregaon case is troubling (Scroll.in / Dec 2023)
When Push Comes to Shove: Tracking Judicial Recusals and Transfers (The Wire / Apr 2023)
Inconsistencies in Bail Orders Mean Individual Liberty Is the Outcome of Judicial Lottery (The Wire / Oct 2022)
Ten recusals in Bhima Koregaon raises the question: Should judges disclose reasons for withdrawal? (Scroll.in / May 2022)

HC questions maintainability of Hany Babu’s fresh bail plea

HC questions maintainability of Hany Babu’s fresh bail plea

HC questions maintainability of Hany Babu’s fresh bail plea

18/05/2025

Hindustan Times / by Karuna Nidhi

Additional solicitor-general Anil Singh, appearing for the NIA, raised preliminary objections over the maintainability of the application, citing a delay of more than two years and four months in its filing after the NIA court on February 14, 2022 rejected Babu’s bail application
The Bombay high court earlier this month questioned the maintainability of the fresh bail application filed on June 10, 2024, by former Delhi University (DU) professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence case.
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Bombay High Court Asks Hany Babu To Seek Clarification From SC Regarding Forum To Approach For Seeking Anticipatory Bail

03/05/2025

Live Law / by Narsi Benwal

The Bombay High Court on Friday asked former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Bhima-Koregaon Elgar Parishad case, to seek clarification from the Supreme Court as to whether he should be approaching the HC or the Special Court for afresh bail.
This comes while the bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Kamal Khata commenced hearing Babu’s appeal challenging an order passed by the Special NIA court in February 2022, denying him bail.
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Thread by Live Law / @LiveLawIndia (May 2, 2025):
Bombay High Court has asked former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu, an accused in the Bhima-Koregaon Elgar Parishad case, to seek clarification from the Supreme Court as to whether he should be approaching either the HC or the Special Court for afresh bail.
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This comes while the bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari & Kamal Khata commenced hearing his appeal challenging an order passed by the Special NIA court in February 2022, denying him bail.
Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh for the NIA raised a preliminary objection stating that if the SC has granted him liberty to seek afresh bail, then he must approach the Special Court and not the HC.
Dr Yug Chaudhary for Hany Babu, however, opposed the objection. He said that he is ready to give up his arguments on merits for the moment and would argue only on the point of delay since his client has been behind the bars for 4 years 9 months now.
“This is a constitutional court and nothing can stop it from hearing my plea for bail on point of delay since my right to life and liberty is being violated,” Chaudhary told the judges.
However, the judges too prima facie, opined that there is no liberty granted by the SC (by its April 3, 2024) order to Hany Babu to file an appeal before the HC. It therefore, asked Babu to seek clarification from the SC and has adjourned the hearing.

Also read:
How Long Is Too Long for an Undertrial Prisoner To Be Detained? (The Wire | by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling | Oct 2024)
Former Delhi University Professor Hany Babu Moves Bombay HC For Bail In Elgar Parishad-Maoist Links (Free Press Journal / Oct 2024)
Ex-DU prof Hany Babu withdraws bail plea in Supreme Court (Hindustan Times / May 2024)

In Taloja Central Jail, interviews with over 300 undertrial prisoners show denial of rights

In Taloja Central Jail, interviews with over 300 undertrial prisoners show denial of rights

The Leaflet / by Hany Babu and Surendra Gadling

The Supreme Court’s reassurance that video-conferencing improves access to courtrooms misses a crucial point. Through interviews with over 300 prisoners in the Taloja Central Jail, two of India’s foremost civil rights activists reveal how the producing of accused through video-conferencing, and the State’s continual excuse of insufficient police personnel, sustains an architecture of injustice, ripping apart the lives of India’s prisoners.
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Many Prisoners at Taloja Jail Not Produced Before Court For Years, Reveals Survey by Surendra Gadling and Sagar Gorkhe (The Wire / Feb 2025)