After a nudge from the Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra government agreed on Wednesday to transfer 81-year-old poet and activist Varavara Rao from Taloja Central Jail Hospital to Nanavati Hospital for 15 days for a medical examination and treatment. . A bench from the SS Shinde and Madhav Jamdar division …
Read More »Court will hear Stan Swamy’s plea for sip use in jail 20 days later
A special court in Mumbai on Friday set a date after 20 days to hear a request from human rights activist Stan Swamy requesting permission to use a straw and straw at Taloja Central Jail, as he cannot hold a glass due to Parkinson’s disease. reported The Hindu. The prosecution …
Read More »Activist Stan Swamy, 83, sent to jail until October 23 in the Koregaon-Bhima case
Stan Swamy is the oldest person in custody in the Koregaon-Bhima case. New Delhi: 83-year-old activist Father Stan Swamy was sent to jail until Oct. 23 by a special court in Mumbai today, a day after his arrest by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) in connection with the 2018 violence …
Read More »‘Bogus Evidence Planted’: Jharkhand Activist Stan Swamy Says Before Arrest
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested 83-year-old social activist Father Stan Swamy at his residence near Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi on Thursday in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. Swamy alleged that false evidence had been placed on his computer before he was arrested by the NIA. Swamy had been questioned …
Read More »‘Good Case on Merits’: SC Asks Defendant Bhima Koregaon to Submit New Bail Statement
On Thursday, the Supreme Court observed that Bhima Koregaon charged Sudha Bharadwaj, has good reason to request bail on the merits of her case, while declining to consider her bail statement submitted on medical grounds. A court headed by Judge UU Lalit said the court was unwilling to grant him …
Read More »Poets qualified as naxal by both Congress and the BJP, What is Kabir Kala Manch?
Role in the violence of Bhima Koregaon In December 2018, members of the Kabir Kala Manch who performed poetry, songs and plays at Elgar Parishad, accused of causing violence in January 2019, were charged with making “inflammatory speeches”. The conference was held in Pune to commemorate the 200th year of …
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