Tag Archives | CPI (Maoist)

In jail for 5 years, activist Mahesh Raut gets bail in Elgar Parishad case

Originally published: The Wire on September 21, 2023 by Sukanya Shantha (more by The Wire) | (Posted Sep 23, 2023)

The 36-year-old tribal rights activist is one of the first five persons to have been arrested in the controversial case, on June 6, 2018.
‘People’s Lawyer’ Sudha Bharadwaj released after three years in jail

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on December 9, 2021 (more by Peoples Dispatch) |

The activist-lawyer was granted default bail on December 1 following more than three years of her incarceration without trial in the Bhima Koregaon case in which a number of other activists were also implicated.