Timeline
December 9, 2021
Sudha Bharadwaj walks out of Byculla Women's Jail.
December 8, 2021
Terms of bail decided.
December 1, 2021
Bombay HC grants Sudha Bharadwaj bail.
November 1, 2021
Bharadwaj spends her 60th birthday incarcerated in Byculla prison. This is her fourth birthday spent behind bars.
August 4, 2021
HC reserves order in her default bail plea.
July 11, 2021
Bharadwaj moves Bombay HC for default bail, challenging the Pune court’s order that extended her detention period on grounds that the court had no jurisdiction to do so.
February 13, 2021
A Mumbai Sessions Court rejects Bharadwaj's application seeking withdrawal of NIA's defamatory reply.
December 30, 2020
Bharadwaj files an application before the Special Court praying the withdrawal of NIA’s defamatory reply that accuses her of harming witnesses.
November 1, 2020
Sudha Bharadwaj spent her birthday behind bars for a third straight year!
September 24, 2020
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea seeking bail on health grounds by Sudha Bharadwaj directing her to file a regular bail application instead as she has a
October 15, 2019
Bombay High Court rejects Sudha Bharadwaj's bail plea.
October 26-27, 2018
Drama over the arrests of renowned human rights activists and lawyers continued into the midnight of Friday, October 26 as the Pune Sessions Court, in a much awaited order, dismissed the bail pleas of Arun Fereira, Vernon Gonsalves and Sudha Bharadwaj. Earlier in the day, a review petition filed by Romila Thapar and others in the Supreme Court of India was dismissed in chambers. Police reached Bharadwajs home the same afternoon, laying in wait to arrest her.
October 23, 2018
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the Bars of 45 countries, and, through them, around one million European lawyers, wrote to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the arrest of Sudha Bharadwaj.
August 29, 2018
Amidst high drama that ensued at midnight, Advocate Vrinda Grover apprised the local Chief Judicial Magistrate of a Punjab and Haryana High Court order granting a stay against the transit remand of Sudha Bharadwaj. She was supposed to be kept at her home in Badarpur, Haryana, but Pune Police wanted to whisk her away to Maharashtra. After her arrest on August 28, till 12 midnight, Sudha Bhardwaj was held in a Toyota Innova stationed on the dark road outside the house of the CJM in sector 15A, Faridabad. Personnel from the Pune Police and Surjkund Police were also present at the spot.
August 28, 2018
Sudha Bharadwaj was first ‘detained’, then ‘arrested’ following a Panch document shown to her in Marathi (a language she cannot comprehend). Neither the warrant for her arrest nor the FIR were given to her in the language that she could read. During the raid and the arrest, the Pune Police ended up violating several set legal procedures on seizure and raid, when they confiscated electronic equipment including computers and mobile phones.
