Topic: Bhima Koregaon

The Bombay High Court on Friday allowed bail to Advocate Surendra Gadling, an under-trial prisoner in the Elgar Parishad case from August 13 to 21 to attend his mother's death anniversary.

At least eight rights activists who are in jail under draconian UAPA in Elgar Parishad case and family, friends and lawyers of the UAPA prisoners have been targeted by the State using hacking software Pegasus sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.

Protesting the "custodial death" of the Jesuit priest and human rights activist Father Stan Swamy, the Bhima Koregaon accused prisoners who were lodged in Taloja jail in Maharashtra have announced to sit on a one-day hunger strike on Wednesday. Meanwhile, alleged Maoist leader Roopesh, an undertrial prisoner in Viyyur jail in Kerala, have observed a day-long hunger strike on Wednesday protesting the same.

Opposition leaders including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and chief ministers of Jharkhand, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu have written to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him "to direct the Government to act against those responsible for foisting false cases" on the renowned tribal rights activist and Elgaar Parishad case accused Father Stan Swamy, who died on Monday.

The family members and friends of the human rights defenders arrested in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case under draconian UAPA have issued a statement...

Jesuit priests, activists, friends, journalists, and family of Father Stan Swamy have organised a condolence meeting for the "people's priest who became the first martyr of BK-16 prisoners" after he succumbed to death following a year-long imprisonment as an under-trial prisoner under the draconian UAPA in the Elgaar Parishad case.