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Bhima Koregaon case: SC notice to NIA on Varavara Rao's plea for permanent bailRao has challenged an April 13 judgment of the Bombay High Court which had rejected his plea for permanent bail. The High Court, however, h...
Bhima Koregaon case: SC to hear Varavara Rao's plea for permanent medical bail on TuesdayIn his plea filed through advocate Nupur Kumar, Varavara Rao has said, "The petitioner is an 83-year-old renowned Telugu poet and orator, w...
Bhima Koregaon case: SC to hear Varavara Rao's permanent medical bail plea on MondayThe Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea filed by Telugu poet and an accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, P Va...
Judicious shot in the arm for libertyThe provision, brought in in 1870 and used against Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mohandas Gandhi, should have been removed long ago. However, the...
Elgar Parishad case transferred to NIA as it pertains to national security: Probe agency to HCThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) also said its credibility is being questioned, while it is fighting for the prevention of unlawful ...
Elgar case accused observe hunger strike in jail against 'institutional murder' of Stan SwamyThe Elgar Parishad case is related to inflammatory speeches made at a conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which, the police claimed...
View: Time for UAPA to meet the same fate as its predecessors – TADA and POTA"Laws such as the UAPA are meant to be repressive, to be deployed at the slightest inconvenience to the state. The provisions of this Act h...
Counsel says NIA never sought Swamy’s custodial interrogationWhile the federal agency maintains that Swamy was an ‘active member’ of the banned outfit CPI (Maoist), who was found with “incriminating d...
India remains committed to promotion and protection of human rights: MEASome member countries including Ireland have been vocal on this issue, they said. On Monday, Eamon Gilmore, the European Union's Special Re...
Stan Swamy's death an 'institutional murder': Family, friends of Elgar Parishad case accusedSwamy was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Ranchi in October 2020 under the stringent Unlawful Activities Preventio...
Tribal rights activist Stan Swamy deadSwamy was arrested in October last year in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case. The 84-year-old, who had since been lodg...
View: No more custodial deaths of political prisoners! Prosecute them if you have evidence, or else, let them goBail is the norm and jail, the exception, ruled Justice V R Krishna Iyer. Unless an accused poses the risk of flight, destruction of eviden...
We are providing sipper, straw to Stan Swamy, say jail authoritiesSwamy had said he needs a straw and sipper as he has trouble eating and drinking because his hands shake due to the Parkinson's disease; hi...
Stan Swamy's wait for straw and sipper gets longer; also seeks bailSwamy, arrested in the alleged Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, on Thursday also filed a bail plea in the special NIA court, citing health...
NPRD seeks NHRC's intervention to provide basic amenities to jailed activist Stan SwamyEighty-three-year-old Swamy, a jesuit priest, was arrested for his alleged role inciting mob violence in Koregaon Bhima near Pune in Mahara...
Jharkhand withdraws general consent to CBI to probe cases, joins other non-BJP ruled statesJharkhand becomes the eighth non-BJP ruled state in recent years to disallow the CBI from carrying out an investigation without the state g...
NIA files charge-sheet against eight people in Bhima Koregaon caseNIA spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General of Police in the agency Sonia Narang said the charge-sheet was submitted before a designated ...