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HC Directs NIA To Submit A Reply To Sudha Bharadwaj’s Appeal

HC Directs NIA To Submit A Reply To Sudha Bharadwaj’s Appeal

Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap

The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the National Investigation Agency to file a short affidavit in the appeal filed by lawyer and trade unionist Sudha Bharadwaj against rejection of bail sought on medical grounds by the Special Court in Mumbai. This is the second time the agency will file a reply to the said plea, as an affidavit has already been filed on June 26 strongly opposing Bharadwaj’s plea.
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NIA ‘strongly opposes’ Sudha Bharadwaj’s bail plea in Bombay HC

Firstpost / by pti

NIA told the court it has ample evidence to show that Bharadwaj had ‘participated in anti-national activities’, and, thus, does not deserve to be let out on bail…
The same bench also heard a plea filed by activists Vernon Gonsalves and Anand Teltumbde, Bharadwaj’s co-accused in the case, seeking coronavirus tests as the two had been in close contact with another co-accused, poet-activist Varavara Rao, in Taloja prison.
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The harassment of Sudha Bharadwaj – A People’s Advocate

The harassment of Sudha Bharadwaj – A People’s Advocate

Counter Currents / by Atul and Sandeep Pandey

Professor Sudha Bharadwaj has been in jail since August 2018. She was taken into police custody on 26 August 2018 on suspicion of being involved in Maoist terror activities after Republic TV claimed that she had allegedly written a letter to Maoists and was conspiring to create public disorder and unrest in India. The channel felt no shame in broadcasting that the elderly Professor was planning to murder the Prime-Minister of India. The police arrested her subsequently and she has been kept in jail continuously since then.
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Jail Authorities Submit Sudha Bharadwaj´s Medical Report

Jail Authorities Submit Sudha Bharadwaj´s Medical Report

Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap

In a fresh medical report submitted before the Bombay High Court on Thursday by the jail authorities at Byculla District Jail, it has been submitted that advocate and activist Sudha Bharadwaj, who is seeking bail on medical grounds, is suffering from ischemic disease which leads to reduced supply of blood in the body.
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NDTV Reality Check: Despite COVID no Bail for Activists

NDTV Reality Check: Despite COVID no Bail for Activists

NDTV / Sreenivasan Jain asks

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N Venugopal, nephew of Varavara Rao: “Varavara Rao was lying in a pool of urine, I changed his clothes and the bedsheets. The nurses and constables came and threw us out”
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Suchitra Vijayan, Founder and Executive Director, The Polis Project: “Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it is just”
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Colin Gonsalves, Senior Lawyer: “Strategy of government and NIA seems to be, ‘let us try and have these guys die in jail, before their trials begin’”
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NIA terms medical condition plea by Varavara Rao a ‘ruse’ for interim bail

NIA terms medical condition plea by Varavara Rao a ‘ruse’ for interim bail

The Times of India / by Swati Deshpande

Mumbai: Opposing his plea for interim bail, National Investigation Agency (NIA) said undertrial-prisoner accused Telugu poet-activist PV Varavara Rao undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at Nanavati Hospital, is “under the garb of current situation on account of global pandemic and his old age is trying to take undue benefit’’.
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Bombay High Court Updates: Hearings postponed again

Bombay High Court Updates: Hearings postponed again


+++ Update July 23: Sudha Bharadwaj´s bail plea was listed today, but did not did not reach hearing / Matters concerning Mr. VV Rao’s interim bail appeal, Dr. Anand’s and Vernon’s Covid 19 test did not reach hearing in the Bombay HC today. Next date could be July 28 +++

Sudha Bharadwaj’s bail plea hearing adjourned

The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal

Hearing of the interim medical bail plea filed by Bhima-Koregaon case accused Sudha Bharadwaj was adjourned in the Bombay High Court on Monday after the court found the medical report submitted by the Byculla jail superintendent to be illegible.
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Bombay HC asks NIA, Maharashtra govt if Varavara Rao’s family can see him

National Herald / by PTI

A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and S P Tavade asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the state to inform the court about Rao’s health condition and clarify by July 22 whether his family members could be permitted to see him.
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Rao’s co-inmates Gonsalves and Teltumbde seek Covid test, HC seeks NIA response

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notices to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Maharashtra government and sought their responses on the plea filed by Varavara Rao’s co-inmates, who sought that they should be tested for Covid-19 too as they were in close contact with Rao at Taloja Central prison … The Court issued notices to NIA and state government and posted further hearing on Thursday, July 23.
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Refusal of bail to Sudha Bharadwaj is based on inadmissible evidence

Refusal of bail to Sudha Bharadwaj is based on inadmissible evidence

The following article refers to the bail dismissal of Oct 15, 2019. The ongoing bail hearings are in the context of medical bail.

It is unjust that refusal of bail to Sudha Bharadwaj is based on inadmissible evidence

The Indian Express / by Colin Gonsalves

The observation of the Court in Bharadwaj’s case that the decision as to whether a document is admissible in evidence or not will have to wait for the trial stage is unbelievable. Courts routinely exclude inadmissible documents or statements (such as hearsay) from consideration while deciding bail applications.
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Global Campaign #StandAsMyWitness: Free Sudha Bharadwaj

Global Campaign #StandAsMyWitness: Free Sudha Bharadwaj

By CIVICUS

Nearly 200 human rights organisations including CIVICUS have signed a letter to world leaders urging them to release human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience in honour of Nelson Mandela Day 18 July … It calls on governments to end the imprisonment and harassment of human rights defenders … Resilient human rights defenders from across the globe feature in the #StandAsMyWitness campaign. The ‘faces’ of the campaign are these defenders currently behind bars, like Sudha Bharadwaj – a human rights lawyer who defends Indigenous people’s rights in India.
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The #StandAsMyWitness campaign urges people to write letters on behalf of the defenders:
Demand the release of Sudha Bharadwaj

Loneliness of VV Rao, Anand Teltumbde, Sudha Bharadwaj tells about state and us

Loneliness of VV Rao, Anand Teltumbde, Sudha Bharadwaj tells about state and us

The Indian Express / by Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Anand Teltumbde, one of India’s important and courageous thinkers, just turned 70 in prison. He, along with Sudha Bharadwaj and others, is being held in the Bhima Koregaon case. They are being repeatedly denied bail. Varavara Rao, poet and Maoist intellectual, contracted COVID and has been subject to degrading and humiliating conditions at the age of 80. The overwhelming power that the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act gives to the state, the sheer impunity with which government can treat this group of accused, the Kafkaesque role of the judiciary in denying bail and making procedural safeguards ineffective, and the deafening political silence on their detention, all warrant deeper reflection.
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Solidarity in Berlin, Palermo, Milan (July 2020)
Release Sudha Bharadwaj, top academic, critic of govt lawlessness: Petition to Thackeray

Release Sudha Bharadwaj, top academic, critic of govt lawlessness: Petition to Thackeray

Counterview / by Counterview Desk

Through a petition to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, Prof Sandeep Pandey, the Magsaysay award winning social activist, along with university academics, students and other activists*, have sought wider support for immediate release of Prof Sudha Bharadwaj, in jail since August 2018 for her alleged involvement in Maoist terror activists following a Republic TV report said she was conspiring to create public disorder and unrest in India.
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