Citizens for Justice and Peace
SUDHA BHARADWAJ
This trade union leader has been at the forefront of the movement to empower workers and Adivasis in Chhattisgarh for over 25 years. She is the general secretary of the Chhattisgarh unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), and a member of Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS).
Charges
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, along with IPC Sections 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups), 505 (public mischief), 117 (abetment) and 120 (conspiracy)
GAUTAM NAVLAKHA
Gautam Navlakha is a senior journalist, civil rights activist and a writer who has been a fierce critic of the Indian Army’s atrocities in the Kashmir Valley. He is a member of People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), Delhi and also the editorial consultant of the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW).
Charges
Sections 153A (promote enmity between different groups on the basis of religion, caste, class), 505(1B) (publishes something to cause alarm in the minds of the public), Section 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), 120(B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 13 (Punishment for unlawful activities), 16 ( Punishment for terrorist act), 17 (Punishment for raising funds for terrorist act), 18 (Punishment for conspiracy), 18B (Punishment for recruiting of any person or persons for terrorist act), 20 (Punishment for being member of terrorist gang or organisation), 38 (Offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 40 (Offence of raising fund for a terrorist organisation) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
ANAND TELTUMBDE
The 71-year-old is an Indian scholar, writer, activist working in the field of civil rights, especially Dalit rights. He is a management professor at the Goa Institute of Management (GIM). Teltumbde was an executive at Bharat Petroleum and managing director of Petronet India Limited before becoming an academic. He was also a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur before he joined as a senior professor at the Goa Institute of Management (GIM). He has been critical of the Modi government, and now sees himself arrested on allegedly trumped up charges of having “Maoist links”.
Charges
Sections 153A (promote enmity between different groups on the basis of religion, caste, class), 505(1B) (publishes something to cause alarm in the minds of the public), Section 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), 120(B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 13 (Punishment for unlawful activities), 16 ( Punishment for terrorist act), 17 (Punishment for raising funds for terrorist act), 18 (Punishment for conspiracy), 18B (Punishment for recruiting of any person or persons for terrorist act), 20 (Punishment for being member of terrorist gang or organisation), 38 (Offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 40 (Offence of raising fund for a terrorist organisation) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
