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Reading The Marginal Spaces Of Prison: Incarceration And Women Political Prisoners

Reading The Marginal Spaces Of Prison: Incarceration And Women Political Prisoners

Credits: Drawing by Arun Ferreira / The Polis Project

Feminism India / by Anchal Soni

Women in prisons booked under laws like UAPA and the colonial law sedition become a critical site of the exposition of the fallacy of law.
The state as a modern capitalist notion often pursues eliminationist policies to repress dissent. The law in a regime change becomes a repressive state apparatus which functions to crush revolutionary people’s movement and penalise dissent. The identity of a political prisoner thus becomes a contested category with an attempted condensation with criminalisation. The notorious Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was amended in 2019 which is an instrumental act in dealing with the procedures to deal with terrorist activities.
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▪ From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
Author: Sudha Bhardwaj
Publishing Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Juggernaut
Pages: 216
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▪ 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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▪ Making legal aid effective for women prisoners (The Leaflet / March 2022)
▪ ‘Buzz of a Mosquito… But With the Sound of Grief’: The Lives of India’s Women Prisoners (The Wire / March 2021)
▪ Byculla women’s prison – no bed or ceiling fan and a fear of covid-19 outbreak (Live Mint / Sep 2020)
▪ Women prisoners recount Jail Horror Stories: Rape and torture common in jails (Citizens for Justice and Peace / Jan 2019)

A Professor & A Singer, Both Accused In Bhima-Koregaon Case, Discuss Hopelessness & Hope In An Indian Prison

A Professor & A Singer, Both Accused In Bhima-Koregaon Case, Discuss Hopelessness & Hope In An Indian Prison

Article 14 / by Stuti Shah

English professor Shoma Sen and singer and activist Jyoti Jagtap, both accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case, discuss the issues they experienced in prison, such as overcrowding, inadequate healthcare, and poor living conditions. They describe the lack of access to education, systemic inequalities, and the challenges faced by marginalised women and LGBTQ+ individuals in India’s prison system. Both women spoke of the importance of sisterhood and resilience and expressed hope for change.
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▪ Episode 18 of CJP’s Podcast Series RightsCast

en/hindi | 13:18min | 2023
By Citizens for Justice and Peace (cjp)
How does the Indian Prison system strip the women inmates of their basic rights and dignity? In a patriarchal society, within a prison system that’s designed to focus on male inmates, how do female prisoners navigate their incarceration?
Listen to this in-depth podcast on the conditions of women inmates in India’s prisons where human rights activists, Adivasi leaders, student activists, lawyers and citizens-in-resistance share stories of horror and explore the plight of women in prison.
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▪ Video: Healthcare and Mental Health inside Prison | Sudha Bharadwaj | QUAID KE PARE
By Citizens for Justice and Peace
hindi | 5:51min
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▪ ‘Buzz of a Mosquito… But With the Sound of Grief’: The Lives of India’s Women Prisoners (The Wire / March 2021)

The SC Is Making Bail Easier In Terrorism, Money Laundering Cases – Except When It Ignores Itself

The SC Is Making Bail Easier In Terrorism, Money Laundering Cases – Except When It Ignores Itself

Article 14 / by Areeb Uddin Ahmed

11 Supreme Court rulings over 10 months appear to be reshaping bail jurisprudence in India, especially with regard to India’s terrorism and money laundering laws, often used to incarcerate many without bail for years. Despite these landmark judgements, the Supreme Court has also avoided deciding bail on high-profile cases important to the government, in so doing ignoring its own rulings.
At least 11 Supreme Court rulings over 10 months granting bail appear to be gradually reshaping bail jurisprudence in India, especially with regard to India’s terrorism and money laundering laws. 
The restrictive bail provisions of these laws have been frequently used to keep accused, mostly protestors, poets, Opposition politicians, dissidents, academics and artists, in jail with no sign of trial.
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▪ SC adjourns hearing on bail plea of Bhima Koregaon case accused Jyoti Jagtap (Hindustan Times / Jul 2024)
▪ Bombay HC rejects default bail of five accused in Bhima Koregaon case (Scroll.in / Jul 2024)
▪ ‘Ominous portents’: Why High Court staying its own bail orders in Bhima Koregaon case is troubling (Scroll.in / Dec 2023)
▪ Inconsistencies in Bail Orders Mean Individual Liberty Is the Outcome of Judicial Lottery (The Wire / Oct 2022)

Supreme Court To Consider Hearing Jyoti Jagtap & Mahesh Raut Matters Together

Supreme Court To Consider Hearing Jyoti Jagtap & Mahesh Raut Matters Together

Supreme Court to hear bail pleas of Jyoti Jagtap, Mahesh Raut together

22/08/2024

Bar & Bench / by Anadi Tewari

While Jagtap was arrested in 2020, Raut has been in jail since 2018.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it would hear the bail pleas of Jyoti Jagtap and Mahesh Raut, accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, together. (Jyoti Jagtap v. National Investigation Agency and anr)
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Supreme Court To Consider Hearing Jyoti Jagtap & Mahesh Raut Matters Together

22/08/2024

Live Law / by Debby Jain

On being apprised that challenge to the bail granted to co-accused Mahesh Raut is pending before another bench, the Supreme Court bench dealing with the bail plea of activist and Bhima Koregaon case accused Jyoti Jagtap asked the Registry today to obtain orders for conjoint hearing of the two cases.
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SC adjourns hearing on bail plea of Bhima Koregaon case accused Jyoti Jagtap

22/08/2024

Hindustan Times / by Abraham Thomas

The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned hearing on the bail plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Jyoti Jagtap upon request by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to have the matter heard with another pending bail plea pertaining to co-accused Mahesh Raut.
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▪ Supreme Court refuses to grant interim bail to jailed activist Jyoti Jagtap (The Hindu / Jul 2024)
▪ ‘Ominous portents’: Why High Court staying its own bail orders in Bhima Koregaon case is troubling (Scroll.in / Dec 2023)
▪ Bhima Koregaon Case: Mahesh Raut, youngest accused, granted bail by the Bombay HC! (SabrangIndia / Sep 2023)
▪ Inconsistencies in Bail Orders Mean Individual Liberty Is the Outcome of Judicial Lottery (The Wire / Oct 2022)

Supreme Court adjourns bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap to August 22

Supreme Court adjourns bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap to August 22


by Bar & Bench – Live Threads / @lawbarandbench (Aug 7):
Supreme Court adjourns to August 22 bail plea of activist Jyoti Jagtap, who is in jail in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case

by Live Law / @LiveLawIndia (Aug 7):
#SupremeCourt to soon hear bail plea of activist and #bhimakoregaon accused #JyotiJagtap.
On July 15, a bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Aravind Kumar stated that they were not inclined to grant her interim bail. Senior Advocate Mihir Desai (appearing for Jagtap) told the bench that the case erroneously listed for interim bail as she is challenging the order of the Bombay HC refusing to grant her regular bail.

Also read:
▪ Supreme Court refuses to grant interim bail to jailed activist Jyoti Jagtap (The Hindu / Jul 2024)
▪ Jyoti Jagtap’s bail plea adjourned again, to be heard with Shoma Sen’s (The Leaflet / Jan 2024)
▪ SC says principles of Arun and Vernon bail judgment to apply to Jyoti Jagtap (The Leaflet / Nov 2023)
▪ Inconsistencies in Bail Orders Mean Individual Liberty Is the Outcome of Judicial Lottery (The Wire / Oct 2022)

How Kabir Kala Manch, the anti-caste cultural troupe, challenges the hierarchical social order

How Kabir Kala Manch, the anti-caste cultural troupe, challenges the hierarchical social order

Scroll.in / by Ajaz Ashraf

An excerpt from ‘Bhima Koregaon: Challenging Caste’, by Ajaz Ashraf.
Maharashtrian academic Amarnath Chandaliya founded the Kabir Kala Manch in the wake of the 2002 pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat. The troupe’s avowed mission was to use songs and skits to inoculate the lower classes and castes against the virus of communalism concocted by the votaries of Hindutva, or militant Hindu nationalism. Given the communal-caste linkages, the Kabir Kala Manch subsequently deployed its artistic oeuvre to sensitise its audiences to the oppression and violence built into the Hindu hierarchical social order. 
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▪ Bhima Koregaon: Challenging Caste. Brahminism’s wrath against dreamers of equality

Author: Ajaz Ashraf  
Publisher: AuthorsUpFront
Publishing Date: June 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 496
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▪ Book Excerpt | How Bhima Koregaon Became a Trope for Dalit Pride and Assertion (The Wire │ by Ajaz Ashraf │ June 2024)

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▪ How Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis encounter the State. ‘It has its boots on our necks’ (The Print / Jul 2024)
▪ Kabir Kala Manch: A History of Revolutionary Singing and State Repression (ritimo / April 2022)
▪ Video: Dafachya Talavar (Songs of Defiance) – A short documentary on Kabir Kala Manch | Hindi, Marthi (subtitles: English) | 24:01min | 2022

Supreme Court Adjourns Jyoti Jagtap’s Plea To August 7

Supreme Court Adjourns Jyoti Jagtap’s Plea To August 7

Jyoti Jagtap

Supreme Court Adjourns Jyoti Jagtap’s Plea To August 7

15/07/2024

Live Law / by Debby Jain

While adjourning to August 7 a plea filed by activist and Bhima Koregaon case accused Jyoti Jagtap challenging denial of regular bail by Bombay High Court, the Supreme Court today expressed that it was not inclined to grant interim bail to her.
The matter was before a bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Aravind Kumar, which was informed by Senior Advocate Mihir Desai (appearing for Jagtap) that the case was erroneously listed for interim bail.
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Supreme Court refuses to grant interim bail to jailed activist Jyoti Jagtap

15/07/2024

The Hindu / by pti

A Bench comprising justices M.M. Sundresh and Aravind Kumar also adjourned the hearing on the main bail plea of the activist. “We are not inclined to give interim bail”, Justice Subdresh said.
The Supreme Court on July 15 refused to grant interim bail to activist Jyoti Jagtap, who is in jail in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
A Bench comprising justices M.M. Sundresh and Aravind Kumar also adjourned the hearing on the main bail plea of the activist.
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▪ Supreme Court Adjourns Bail Plea Of Jyoti Jagtap To July (Live Law / May 2024)
▪ What is Kabir Kala Manch, the cultural group accused of being a Maoist front? (The Indian Express / Jan 2024)
▪ SC says principles of Arun and Vernon bail judgment to apply to Jyoti Jagtap (The Leaflet / Nov 2023)
▪ Inconsistencies in Bail Orders Mean Individual Liberty Is the Outcome of Judicial Lottery (The Wire / Oct 2022)

BK-16 PRISON DIARIES: RUPALI JADHAV TRAVELS TEN HOURS FOR FLEETING EXCHANGES WITH JYOTI JAGTAP

BK-16 PRISON DIARIES: RUPALI JADHAV TRAVELS TEN HOURS FOR FLEETING EXCHANGES WITH JYOTI JAGTAP

To mark six years of the arbitrary arrests and imprisonment of political dissidents in the Bhima Koregaon case, The Polis Project is publishing a series of writings by the BK-16, and their families, friends and partners. By describing various aspects of the past six years, the series offers a glimpse into the BK-16’s lives inside prison, as well as the struggles of their loved ones outside. Each piece in the series is complemented by Arun Ferreira’s striking and evocative artwork.

THE POLIS PROJECT / BY RUPALI JADHAV

This is the story of that day, when Jyoti was supposed to meet us, but did not show up. Two other members of Kabir Kala Manch, Ramesh and Sagar, had already been arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, and the NIA had summoned Jyoti to Mumbai for questioning for the third time. The next day, on 8 September 2020, Jyoti was supposed to meet me and some of our sathis, or friends, at Sarasbaug in Pune. We waited for her for a long time. Her phone was unreachable. I became anxious because she is usually very punctual and disciplined, and I told the others that she never takes this long. Only after I started searching for her did I receive the call. “We are calling from Pune ATS. Jyoti Jagtap has been arrested. You can come here to collect her keys and belongings.”
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▪ BK-16 PRISON DIARIES: JENNY ROWENA ON THE FEAR OF PRISONS AND THE BRAHMINICAL SYSTEM BEHIND IT (THE POLIS PROJECT / JUNE 2024)
▪ BK-16 PRISON DIARIES: ANAND TELTUMBDE REFLECTS ON HIS ARREST AND INCARCERATION (THE POLIS PROJECT / JUNE 2024)
▪ BK-16 PRISON DIARIES: STORIES OF LOVE, MURDER AND CHILD MARRIAGE FROM SHOMA SEN’S YEARS IN PRISONS (THE POLIS PROJECT / JUNE 2024)
▪ BK-16 PRISON DIARIES: ARUN FERREIRA ON THE FARCE AND TRAGEDY OF THE PANDEMIC IN PRISON (THE POLIS PROJECT / JUNE 2024)
▪ BK-16 PRISON DIARIES: VERNON GONSALVES ON THE STRUGGLE TO READ AND WRITE BEHIND BARS (THE POLIS PROJECT / JUNE 2024)
▪ INTRODUCING THE BK-16 PRISON DIARIES SERIES (THE POLIS PROJECT / JUNE 2024)

Meet 10 ‘political prisoners’ of the Narendra Modi regime in jail without trial

Meet 10 ‘political prisoners’ of the Narendra Modi regime in jail without trial

The Telegraph / by Telegraph Web Desk

From Kashmir to Pune, here are some of the most high-profile names in India’s prisons for whom the criminal justice process has been made the punishment
From the barrage of detainees from the CAA-NRC protests to the infamous Bhima Koregaon arrests, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s time in office has been marked by a number of ‘political prisoners’ who remain indefinitely behind bars, with their trials still pending.
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▪ 7/16 Bhima Koregaon Accused Get Bail, Courts Raise Prima Facie Doubts About Evidence (Live Law / May 2024)
▪ UAPA – CRIMINALISING DISSENT AND STATE TERROR – Study of UAPA Abuse in India, 2009-2022 (PUCL / Sep 2022). Download report

Supreme Court Adjourns Bail Plea Of Jyoti Jagtap To July

Supreme Court Adjourns Bail Plea Of Jyoti Jagtap To July

Live Law / by Debby Jain & Gyanvi Khanna

The Supreme Court today (on May 16) has adjourned the bail plea of activist and Bhima Koregaon case accused Jyoti Jagtap to July. It may be noted that the plea for interim bail was listed before the three-judge Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh, and Bela M Trivedi yesterday. However, it was re-listed for today.
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by Bar and Bench / @barandbench (May 16):

“We cannot hear this now. We will have it after reopening”: Supreme Court adjourns bail plea of Bhima Koregaon accused Jyoti Jagtap to July.

Also read:
▪ Contrary To SC’s Rules Of Assignment, At Least 8 Politically Sensitive Cases Moved To One Judge In 4 Months (article 14 / Dec 2023)
▪ Jyoti Jagtap’s bail plea adjourned again, to be heard with Shoma Sen’s (The Leaflet / Jan 2024)
▪ What is Kabir Kala Manch, the cultural group accused of being a Maoist front? (The Indian Express / Jan 2024)