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There Is No Case. Release the Bhima Koregaon 16 and Compensate Them https://thewire.in/rights/bhima-koregaon-arrests-activists-arsenal-report ..Professor Anand Teltumbde's incarceration in the Bhima Koregaon case had less to do with any so-called conspiracy, and more to do with his Dalit-centred Marxist politics, which was seen as a direct threat to the corporate-Manuvadi government of Modi.

A second report released on April 21, 2020 by Arsenal Computing contains more damning evidence of how files were planted on Rona Wilson's computer.
Three years have rolled by, and more than 16 prominent activists, intellectuals, social workers, lawyers, cultural artists are in prison on fabricated, false charges. a second report released on April 21, 2020, by Arsenal contains more damning evidence of how the intrusion took place and shows that 22 more files were planted. Their latest report includes data showing the hacker-attacker typing commands to deliver documents to a hidden folder on Rona Wilson’s computer – which was likened by Mark Spencer, Arsenal’s president, to the equivalent of a “videotape of someone committing a crime.”

These planted documents are not some random acts of internet hacking. These form the core of the NIA’s case against the 16 people accused in the Bhima Koregaon case. It is on the basis of these planted documents retrieved from Wilson’s computer that sensational claims were made about a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

These documents paved the way for India’s anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), to be invoked against the accused. This law allows the state to hold them prisoner for as long as they please, with scant any recourse to bail or an early trial.

BJP Govt Lies Exposed! Forensic analysis shows Rona Wilson is innocent! : https://youtu.be/eZe89x63P8E

https://caravanmagazine.in/economy/anand-teltumbde-writes-from-prison-economy-cannot-divorce-constitution   For this article, all detainees under this case are having their letters to family delayed by as much a two months, 'mulakats' refused/made difficult on flimsy grounds, please for medical attention have been rejected as "habitual complainants"

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On January 1, 2018, a much larger number of Dalits came to Bhima-Koregaon to celebrate the 200th anniversary.

Sambhaji Bhide and Milind Ekbote "desecrated the samadhi of a Dalit icon near Pune on December 29, sparking the riots that engulfed Mumbai on Tuesday and could put the city in a gridlock...". https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story/the-two-who-brought-your-city-to-a-halt/articleshow/62344275.cms  The timing of their ransacking of the samadhi located in a village named Wadhu in Pune district was telling. They desecrated the Samadhi on December 29, knowing fully well that thousands of Dalits would gather on January 1 at a nearby village called Bhima-Koregaon to celebrate the anniversary of the defeat of the Peshva army at the hands of British forces comprising mainly Dalit soldiers.

A pune based Businessman, Tushar Damgude’s complaint, which the police filed as a first information report on January 8, alleged the violence that marred a Dalit commemoration at Bhima Koregaon on January 1 was instigated by leftist activists with alleged Maoist links who had spoken at a public meeting called Elgar Parishad the previous day. https://scroll.in/article/892596/im-a-small-person-meet-tushar-damgude-whose-police-complaint-sparked-the-crackdown-on-activists He accuses activists such as Sudhir Dhawale, Varavara Rao and Jignesh Mevani of spreading violent ideas and inciting Dalits to rise against the upper castes.

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