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Suhit K Sen
Another Curve Fails to Flatten: BJP’s Use of Sedition Law
04 Aug 2020
Hany Babu has been charged with a colonial-era law that was invoked 233 times between 2014 and 2018.
Souradeep Roy
Hany Babu: Portrait of a Professor as an Activist
31 Jul 2020
I apologised for sending him a reminder email at a time when the NIA had summoned him. ‘Thank you for your understanding,’ he replied...“Will see where they take it after that.’
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NIA Arrests Delhi Varsity Prof Hany Babu in Bhima Koregaon Case
28 Jul 2020
This is the 12th arrest in the case, in which 11 rights activists, lawyers and academics such as Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Anand Teltumbde have already been incarcerated.
Apurba K Baruah
Law Regulates But Politics Governs: The Sad Case of Akhil Gogoi
24 Jun 2020
This practice of re-arresting the accused in old cases, when the charge sheets could not be filed in any major charges, is an attempt at circumventing the judicial scrutiny of executive actions.
PTI
Elgar Case Transfer: HC Seeks NIA, Centre and Maha Govt Response Before July 14
23 Jun 2020
Lawyer activist Sudha Bharadwaj's bail plea hearing put off to Friday as NIA was yet to be served a copy of the petition by her lawyers.
PTI
Elgar Parishad: Gadling, Dhawale Move HC, Challenge Probe Transfer to NIA
19 Jun 2020
The petition in Bombay HC alleged the probe transfer from Pune police was done by the Central government after BJP lost power in Maharashtra and was hence "politically motivated".
Newsclick Team
#LalSalaamComrade Trends on Twitter, Ignorance over COVID-19, and More
11 Jun 2020
In this episode of Daily Round-up, we talk about how Twitter users resolutely defended the expressions ‘Lal Salaam’ and ‘Comrade’ in the context of the NIA charge-sheet.
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After NIA Chargesheet Called it Criminal, Twitter Responds with #LalSalaamComrade
10 Jun 2020
The hashtag came about after the National Investigation Agency held in a chargesheet that using ‘lal salam’ and ‘comrade’ meant that one is a Maoist.
PTI
Bhima-Koregaon: SC Seeks Gautam Navlakha's Reply on NIA Plea Against HC Order
02 Jun 2020
Next hearing after two weeks. The HC had earlier pulled up NIA for acting in “unseemly haste” in taking away Navlakha to Mumbai while his interim bail plea was pending in Delhi.
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Rights Activist Gautam Navlakha Sent in Judicial Custody till June 22 by Mumbai NIA Court
26 May 2020
The activist, who was lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, was given just five minutes to pack his belonging and was “whisked off to Bombay without a word to his family or lawyers,” allege sources close to…