Pune police file supplementary chargesheet against five activists
Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
The chargesheet named activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and banned CPI (Maoist) leader Ganapathy.
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Activists leaked security inputs to wanted Maoists, says supplementary charge sheet
Business Standard / by ANI
Hyderabad based poet Varavara Rao along with Nagpur activist and lawyer Surendra Gadling provided security-related information to wanted Maoists, alleged a supplementary charge sheet filed by the Pune Police on Thursday in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case.
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A Letter to Sudha Bharadwaj, From the World of My Childhood
The Wire / By Ragini Jha
“I have never expressed how much you have given me: perhaps your life and commitments, which were far less interesting than the games and songs in my childhood, resonated in more ways than I will understand.”
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Sudha Bhardwaj moves HC to seek bail
Business Standard / By Press Trust of India
Human rights activist and lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj, arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case, has moved the Bombay High Court to seek bail.
The plea was taken up for hearing on Wednesday by Justice N W Sambre.
Bhardwaj, through her lawyer Yug Chaudhary, challenged the decision of a Pune court that had rejected her bail plea in October last year.
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How Contractual Labourers Uprooted BJP’s Rule in Chhattisgarh
Newsclick / By Saurabh Sharma
The workers were especially angered following the arrest of activist Sudha Bharadwaj in a “false” case. Bharadwaj had been associated with the CMM for many years.
Contract workers of Chhattisgarh seem to have played a significant role in the defeat of the 15-year-old BJP-led state government in the recent elections.
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Trade unionists branded as ‘Urban Naxals’, arrested under UAPA shows State repression of labour activists has peaked
The Leaflet / By B Sivaraman
The NDA government in the Centre and the Maharashtra government are trampling upon the entire gamut of rights and not only human rights as understood in the conventional manner. Labour rights, women’s rights and Adivasi rights all are turning into human rights issues because of repression.
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Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha- Mazdoor Karyakarta Samiti (CMM-MKS): A Political Engagement of Sudha Bharadwaj
Countercurrents / By Dillip Kumar Dash
One can debate and dispute with the entire matrix of formulations, activities and experiments happening there. And, that constitutes the history of politics. But, narratives of violence attempt to create setbacks for peoples’ struggle by creating a legitimacy crisis. Such efforts fail. Today, even the kids from the workers’ families shout slogans identifying themselves with Didi, the way some others did when Niyogi was condemned. The very slogan they give is Sudha Didi Naxali hai to hum bhi Naxali hain (if Sudha Didi is a Naxalite, we are also Naxalites).
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Workers in Bhilai Protest Arrest of Sudha Bhardwaj
Groundxero / By Kaladas Daheriya
Workers in Bhilai condemn the arrest of worker-leader, human right activist and peoples lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, calling it an attack on the working class and toiling masses.
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JAGDALPUR LEGAL AID GROUP CONDEMNS THE ARREST OF ADVOCATE SUDHA BHARADWAJ
SUDHA BHARADWAJ – AN INTIMATE FRIEND, ALLY, MENTOR AND AN INSPIRATION
PRESS RELEASE
The Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group (JagLAG) and Collective strongly condemns and mourns the incidents of arrest and police remand of Advocate, friend, mentor, and colleague Sudha Bharadwaj and calls upon a collective expression of solidarity and strength from all activists, students, lawyers, democratic rights and civil liberty communities, friends and the general public. We also denounce this ongoing onslaught on other activists, lawyers, writers and professors, including Advocate Surendra Gadling, Advocate Arun Ferriera, Professor Shoma Sen, Vernon Gonsalves, Mahesh Raut, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha, Sudhir Dhawale, Fr. Stan Swamy, Rona Wilson, Anand Teltumbe and several others who are being implicated by this mesh of lies and deceit spun by the Pune Police.
The Govt is out to silence Dissenters through Arrests: Justice Hosbet Suresh
Sabrangindia.in / by Sabrang
Sabrang India spoke to justice Hosbet Suresh (retired) about the threats to arrest him made by ACP, Shivaji Pawar, the current attacks on lawyers, the political and legal climate of the country and the fascist ideology of the current government.
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