Report Wire

Tag: Bhima Koregaon

  • Supreme Court dismisses bail plea of activist Gautam Navlakha in Bhima Koregaon case

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea of activist Gautam Navlakha, searching for bail within the Elgar Parishad-Maoist hyperlink case of Bhima Koregaon in Maharashtra.
    A bench of justices UU Lalit and Okay M Joseph dismissed the enchantment of Navlakha in opposition to the Bombay High Court order denying him bail within the case.
    Justice Joseph, who pronounced the decision for the bench, stated the courtroom is dismissing the enchantment of Navlakha.
    On March 26, the highest courtroom had reserved its verdict on a plea of Navlakha.

    The prime courtroom had on March 3 sought response from the NIA on Navlakha’s plea during which he has claimed that the cost sheet was not filed inside the stipulated time interval and therefore, he was entitled for default bail.
    The FIR in opposition to him was re-registered in January 2020, and Navlakha had surrendered earlier than the NIA on April 14, final 12 months.
    He had spent 11 days within the NIA’s custody until April 25, and since then he’s in judicial custody.
    According to the prosecution, some activists allegedly made inflammatory speeches and provocative statements on the Elgar Parishad meet in Pune on December 31, 2017, which triggered violence at Koregaon Bhima within the district the subsequent day.
    It has additionally alleged that the occasion was backed by some Maoist teams.

    On February 8, the excessive courtroom had dismissed Navlakha’s plea saying that “it sees no reason to interfere with a special court’s order which earlier rejected his bail plea”.
    Navlakha had approached the excessive courtroom final 12 months, difficult the particular NIA courtroom’s order of July 12, 2020 that rejected his plea for statutory bail.
    On December 16 final 12 months, the excessive courtroom bench reserved its verdict on the plea filed by Navlakha, searching for statutory or default bail on the grounds that he had been in custody for over 90 days, however the prosecution didn’t file a cost sheet within the case inside this era.
    The NIA had argued that his plea was not maintainable, and sought an extension of time to file the cost sheet.
    The particular courtroom had then accepted NIA’s plea searching for extension of 90 to 180 days to file the cost sheet in opposition to Navlakha and his co-accused, activist Dr Anand Teltumbde. Navlakha had earlier already argued that he has spent 93 days in custody, together with 34 days of home arrest, and that the excessive courtroom should depend home arrest as a interval of custody.
    While he was beneath home arrest, Navlakha’s private liberties remained curtailed, his counsel had submitted.
    The NIA had earlier argued that Navlakha’s home arrest couldn’t be included within the time spent within the custody of police or NIA, or beneath judicial custody.

    It had submitted that the Pune police arrested Navlakha in August 2018, however had not taken him into custody.
    It had stated that Navlakha remained beneath home arrest, and the Delhi High Court quashed his arrest and remand order in October 2018.

  • Bhima-Koregaon Battle anniversary: Subdued occasion at Jaystambh, state ministers pay respects

    The occasions to mark the 203rd anniversary of Battle of Bhima-Koregaon started on the Jaystambh at Pune’s Perne village from the early hours of the New Year on Friday.
    Ambedkarite organisations and the district administration had urged individuals to pay respects staying at dwelling on the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. The ceremonies on Friday started with monks performing Buddha Vandana and Dhamma Desana prayers on the Jaystambh. Members of Samata Sena and retired personnel from Mahar Regiment of the Army performed a drill with a band.
    Maharashtra ministers Ajit Pawar, Anil Deshmukh and Nitin Raut have been amongst those that paid their respects on the Jaystambh. The representatives of assorted Ambedkarite organisations shall be paying their respects within the slots allotted to them until afternoon.
    The occasion witnessed large police power deployed for sustaining regulation and order state of affairs. (Express Photo by Ashish Kale)
    On the backdrop of the pandemic, Collector Rajesh Deshmukh has earlier issued a prohibitory order beneath Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 which prohibits individuals from outdoors from visiting the Jaystambh between December 30, 2020 and 6 am on January 2, 2021. Exemptions have been made for these issued passes for conducting numerous ceremonies as a part of a symbolic programme on the monument. The prohibitory orders are additionally in power in opposition to spreading misinformation and rumours on social media platforms concerning the Jaystambh in Perne village and numerous ceremonies happening there on January 1.
    As a precautionary measure, the Pune District Administration barred Hindutva activist Milind Ekbote, some Elgaar Parishad organisers together with Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) members, Dalit activists and several other different locals from Bhima-Koregaon space from getting into or being current within the limits of the district for over three days across the 203rd anniversary of the battle.
    In the view of COVID 19, solely those that have gotten passes from police are allowed to go to Jaystambh at Perne village for marking the anniversary of battle of Koregaon Bhima. (Express photograph by Ashish Kale)
    It will be recalled that the Bhima Koregaon Shaurya Din Prerna Abhiyaan had organised the Elgaar Parishad at Shaniwar Wada in Pune on December 31, 2017. Next day, on January 1, 2018, the two hundredth anniversary of the battle, violence was reported within the space leaving at the least one particular person useless and several other others injured. Pune Police have claimed that ‘provocative’ speeches on the convention have been among the many elements that led to the violence, and arrested a number of human rights activists from throughout India in reference to the case.

    The Elgaar Parishad case, at the moment being investigated by the National Investigation Agency, has until now led to the arrests of organiser Sudhir Dawale and several other activists together with Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao and Stan Swamy, over their alleged hyperlinks with the banned CPI-Maoist.