Sudha Bharadwaj
Bharadwaj, arrested in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case, has been jail since October 2018.
These activists have been kept in prison through the pandemic despite their families making multiple requests on health grounds.
A judicial probe establishing the CRPF and Chhattisgarh police killed 17 villagers, including 7 children in 2012 was made public in the same week the Telangana Police killed four men accused of rape.
The three activists have been in custody for a year.
Justice Sarang Kotwal’s clarification came after Gonsalves’ counsel told the court on Thursday that none of the books seized by the Pune police from his residence were banned by the government.
Arundhati Roy has extended her support, saying arresting Teltumbde will silence a powerful and unique Dalit voice.
The former Supreme Court justice, one of the organisers of the Elgar Parishad, says no Maoists were involved in the programmeand that the activists had been arrested because they criticised the government.