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Cloned copies of seized electronic evidence handed to 3 Elgar Parishad accused

Cloned copies of seized electronic evidence handed to 3 Elgar Parishad accused

Hindustan Times / by Shalaka Shinde

PUNE: Voluminous electronic evidence seized by Pune police from the possession of the accused in the Elgar Parishad case was handed over to two of the accused in a Pune court on Wednesday. Two hard disks – one of 8 terabyte and one of 2 terabyte – were given to accused Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling in the court of Additional Sessions Judge SR Navander.
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Bail plea of six activists rejected, court says their acts ‘against democracy’

Bail plea of six activists rejected, court says their acts ‘against democracy’

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

A special UAPA court in Pune Wednesday rejected the bail pleas of six of the nine arrested accused – Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson, Varavara Rao, Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut and Surendra Gadling – in the Elgaar Parishad case. The court also said that it could now move for trial if both the parties were ready.
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Whatsapp Spyware Attack: Bhima-Koregaon activists being spied on by the Centre?

Whatsapp Spyware Attack: Bhima-Koregaon activists being spied on by the Centre?

Sabrangindia / by Sabrangindia

The Whatsapp Snoopgate issue that spread like wildfire, not only had the general public under its attack, but lawyers defending the human rights activists arrested under the controversial Bhima Koregaon case have also confirmed that their phones were being targeted by Pegasus, a the surveillance software developed by Israeli company NSO group that came to be in question, The Huffington Post report.
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Elgaar Parishad case probe biased, imaginary: Defence lawyer to court

Elgaar Parishad case probe biased, imaginary: Defence lawyer to court

The Indian Express / By Express News Service

Police have claimed that a letter seized from an accused mentions an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a ‘Rajiv Gandhi type incident’.
A defence lawyer representing two of the arrested accused in the Elgaar Parishad case — Rona Wilson and P Varavara Rao — on Thursday termed the investigation in the case ‘biased’ and ‘imaginary’.
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Allowing the State to Designate Someone as a ‘Terrorist’ Without Trial is Dangerous

Allowing the State to Designate Someone as a ‘Terrorist’ Without Trial is Dangerous

The Wire / by Siddharth Varadarajan

The UAPA Amendment Bill is the single most dangerous piece of legislation the country has ever seen.
Should government officials and politicians – even upstanding democrats with a long record of respecting the rule of law like home minister Amit Shah – be trusted with the power to designate an individual as a “terrorist”, that too, without that person being tried and convicted?
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