Lawyer and trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj, Telugu poet P Varavara Rao, activist Gautam Navlakha, and lawyers Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves were arrested on August 26 for alleged links with left-wing rebels called Naxals or Maoists. read more

The centre said the magistrate concerned should have been looking into the grievance of the five activists, if any, against the arrest rather than the country’s top court. read more

Lawyer and trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj, Telugu poet P Varavara Rao, activist Gautam Navlakha, and lawyers Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves were arrested for alleged links with left-wing rebels called Naxals or Maoists. read more

The senior Congress leader, who was in Nagpur on Saturday, said that he did not agree with that term (Urban Naxalite) and would answer the question only when it was replaced. read more

I wish I had been there at Bhima Koregaon protesting with others in what could well turn out to be the beginning of a second national movement for genuine independence and democracy. read more

The Maharashtra Police, criticised for the crackdown of five prominent activists, on Friday went public with documents and letters seized from their possession that the authorities claim, prove that the activists were working closely with Maoists and even facilitating purchase of weapons and grenades for them. Five activists — lawyer and trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj, poet P Varavara Rao, activist Gautam Navlakha, and lawyers Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves — had been arrested this week. But the police has not been able to question them after the Supreme Court stopped Pune police from taking their custody and placed them under house arrest. (HT Correspondent )read more

At a press conference, senior Maharashtra police officer Param Bir Singh said the police had arrested activists only when we were confident that clear links had been established. read more

Sabha Husain, arrested activist Gautam Navlakha’s partner, was describing the scene at their residence in Delhi’s Nehru Enclave, where Navlakha has been put under house arrest. read more

The probe into the caste riots in Bhima Koregaon, 40 kilometres from Pune, has taken two routes – one indicating the involvement of Maoists and another about the role of members associated with rightwing Hindutva outfits. read more

Protesters hold placards and raise slogans during a protest at Parliament Street in New Delhi, on August 30, 2018 against arrests of lawyer and trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj, poet P Varavara Rao, activist Gautam Navlakha, and lawyers Arun Pereira and Vernon Gonsalves across five states by Pune Police on Tuesday.

(Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)read more

The state’s home department, which cleared the controversial multi-state raids and arrests, is convinced that the emails recovered provide “ample evidence” against activists for working as fronts for a banned Maoist group, the CPI (Maoist), and conspiring... read more

A day after the Supreme Court refused custody of the five activists — lawyer and trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj, poet P Varavara Rao, activist Gautam Navlakha, and lawyers Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves — to the police and ordered house arrest... read more

Varavara Rao is among the five accused activists under house arrest till September 5. read more

37 rights groups condemn Pune police’s action, call it political conspiracy to suppress civil liberties. read more

Lawyer and trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj, revolutionary poet P Varavara Rao, civil rights activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha, and lawyers and activists Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves were arrested by Pune police on Tuesday. read more