Live Law / By Nitish Kashyap
The Special Court designated under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in Pune has ordered copies of forensic reports submitted along with the police report, to be furnished to human rights lawyer Surendra Gadling and activist Arun Ferreira, accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case.
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The Indian Express / By Express News Service
They had earlier argued that the police had not followed the proper procedure in submitting the electronic data before the court, following which the special court had then directed the accused to file an application in this regard.
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The Hindu / By Shoumoji Banerjee
Stating that there was nothing seditious about the speeches made by participants at the Elgar Parishad of December 2017, human rights lawyer Surendra Gadling on Friday accused the prosecution of conducting a media trial in the case.
Advocate Gadling, conducting his own defence, was replying to public prosecutor Ujjwala Pawar’s arguments that sought to deny bail to him and the other activists arrested in the case.
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Letter By Lídia Senra Rodríguez
Dear Ms Federica MOGHERINI
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
I call on you once again regarding your responsibility as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in order to ask for your much-appreciated reaction about the dramatic situation of Professor GN Saibaba. …
I also demand the immediate release of the lawyer of Professor GN Saibaba, Surendra Gadling, as well as human rights activists Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Shoma Sen, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut.
Full letter (pdf file): Letter to HR Ms. Mogherini regarding the worrying situation of Indian professor GN Saibaba_050419.pdf
Times of India / By Vishwas Kothari
Activist-lawyer Surendra Gadling argued before the special UAPA court on Tuesday that the electronic documents the Pune police seized in the Elgar Parishad case could not be relied on while deciding his bail plea because the prosecution had not yet provided their cloned copies to him and the other accused.
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Statement by VIRASAM (Revolutionary Writer’s Association)
Statement from Feb 1 2019
We strongly condemn implicating Varavara Rao and Surendra Gadling in yet another false case. Revolutionary poet, one of the founders of VIRASAM, Varavararao and advocate Surendra Gadling are charged with another concocted case by RSS police of Maharashtra. Yes, they are in fact acting like RSS members rather than state police.
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Surendra Gadling is a human rights lawyer and General Secretary of the Indian Association of Peoples’ Lawyers (IAPL). Among those he has represented are numerous human rights defenders arrested on fabricated charges of being anti-national. …
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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Times of India / By Vishwas Kothari
Officiating UAPA judge S S Gosavi on Friday asked the state prosecution to file a written say on activist Surendra Gadling’s plea seeking cloned copies of the 25 terabyte electronic data police seized in the Elgar Parishad case from all the arrested accused.
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Scroll.in / By Mridula Chari
Yerawada Central Jail, Maharashtra’s largest prison, is notorious for its harsh treatment of prisoners.
Eighty-year-old Varavara Rao asked for a mattress to sleep on inside Pune’s Yerawada Central Jail last month. He was given extra blankets instead. When his lawyer challenged this in court, the authorities took back the blankets.
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