Livelaw / by Nitish Kashyap
The Bombay High Court on Monday reserved judgement after conclusion of arguments in bail applications filed by activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Pune police’s case against the said accused that they were involved in inciting caste-based violence at Koregaon Bhima in Pune on January 1, 2018.
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Hindustan Times / by KAY Dodhiya
The three activists accused in last year’s Bhima-Koregaon violence claimed before the Bombay high court (HC) that merely knowing or professing Marxist, Leninist, Bolshevik or Maoist ideologies could not be the basis for keeping them in jail. The Pune Police concluded its arguments opposing the bail applications of the three accused –Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira and Sudha Bharadwaj – on Friday.
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Hindustan Times / by KAY Dodhiya
Pune Police on Thursday continued its argument against the bail applications of activists Vernon Gonsalves, Dr Sudha Bharadwaj and Arun Ferreira, who were arrested last year in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
The police said two letters … prove that the Indian Association of People’s Lawyer (IAPL), and three other organisations, were fronts for the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
However, the accused’s phone records raised questions about the police’s theory.
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Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap
The prosecution began its arguments on Tuesday in the bail hearings of Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj and Arun Ferreira, all accused of being a part of the Naxalite movement and for inciting the violence which took place at Koregaon Bhima in Pune.
Justice Sarang Kotwal has been hearing the detailed submissions of all the bail applicants almost on a daily basis.
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News18 / by PTI
The state government told the court that activists Arun Ferreira, Sudha Bharadwaj and Vernon Gonsalves are active members of frontal groups funded by the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday opposed bail pleas filed by three activists arrested last year for alleged Maoist links and involvement in the Koregaon Bhima caste violence case.
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Hindustan Times / by KAY Dodhiya
Arguments in the bail application of lawyer and human rights activist Arun Ferreira concluded on Monday in the Bombay high court (HC). Ferreira, along with civil rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj and activist Vernon Gonsalves, is in jail for their alleged involvement in the 2017 Elgar Parishad conclave, which purportedly led to the Bhima-Koregaon violence on January 1, 2018.
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The Asian Age / by The Asian Age
A single bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal was hearing the bail application filed by co-accused Vernon Gonsalves and Bharadwaj.
Mumbai: Bhima-Koregaon violence accused Sudha Bharadwaj’s counsel on Thursday argued before the court that six documents and one witness were not enough to accuse her of terrorist activities.
He contended that since she had been in jail for one year, she should be released on bail.
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Outlook / by Preetha Nair
Lawyers and kin of jailed activists allege pre-trial punishment.
“It’s tough without him around. I am not hopeful of any positive outcome now,” says Meenal Gadling, wife of human rights lawyer Surendra Gadling, who has been languishing in Pune’s Yerawada jail for more than a year now.
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The Leaflet / by A J Philip
It is easy for the police to conclude that if I have read dozens of detective novels, which are mostly about murders, I have a murderous inclination. The truth is that I can’t even slaughter a chicken, though I may relish it when it is roasted and served on the table.
Dear Justice Sarang Kotwal,
First of all, I owe an apology to you. I was misled by a news-report that you questioned why Vernon Gonsalves, an academic accused of being an urban Naxal, kept the voluminous Russian Classic, Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”, in his personal collection of books.
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Aug 28, 2019 in Raipur
The Indian Express / by Express News Service
Sudha Bharadwaj was arrested by the Pune City Police on August 28, last year, in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case, for her alleged links with the banned CPI-Maoist.
While arguing in favour of her bail application before the Bombay High Court, an advocate representing activist Sudha Bharadwaj said on Friday that not a single document relied upon by the Pune Police against her was recovered from her electronic devices.
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