Lawyer-Activist Sudha Bharadwaj Released After 3 Years In Jail https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sudha-bharadwaj-released-from-jail-in-elgar-parishad-bhima-koregaon-case-2643670
The case is yet to go to trial, and Ms Bharadwaj was released from the Byculla women's prison after the NIA court set bail conditions yesterday.
Rights group People's Union for Civil Liberties welcomed the default bail granted to Sudha Bharadwaj and said that it sees it "as a vindication of the long campaign against the UAPA by the PUCL and other allied groups. It indicates a shift in the larger public mood and judicial mindset towards acknowledging the UAPA as an unjust and undemocratic tool to stifle any viewpoint which the government considers problematic." Dr. V. Suresh, General Secretary of PUCL, said that the organisation's "ultimate objective" is the repeal of the controversial anti-terror law UAPA and ensure the release of all who have been "unjustly imprisoned" under it. The civil rights organisation is also campaigning for the withdrawal of prosecution against all 16 accused in the Bhima Koregaon case.
Lawyer-Activist Sudha Bharadwaj Released After 3 Years In Jail Dec 9, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0DNipVYYw Lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, one of the 16 people arrested in the Elgar Parishad case, was released this morning after spending over three years in jail. The Supreme Court had two days ago rejected the National Investigation Agency's plea to stay the default bail granted to her by the Bombay High Court on December 1. "We see no reason to interfere with the High Court order. Plea dismissed," a bench of Justices UU Lalit, SR Bhat, and Bela M Trivedi had said, clearing her release.