Seditious Cases – Mysore, Hubli and Bidar

Karnataka Lawyers Face Hostility While Representing Those Accused of Sedition

The bail application was filed after Chief Justice of Karnataka said that contempt proceedings would be initiated against those who try to stop the lawyers from filing the bail plea.

In a first of its kind in the State, about 200 advocates have arrived here on January 20, to file petition in favour of Nalini Balakumar who displayed ‘Free Kashmir placard’ at Manasagangotri the PG campus of University of Mysore on January 08.

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Karnataka High Court seeking action against the Bidar police for ‘illegally examining and questioning’ minor school students who participated in a play against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The bail condition states that they shall not directly or indirectly induce threat to anyone acquainted with the facts to dissuade him/her to reveal the details or tamper with the evidence.

The petition seeks action against the police for the ‘illegal manner of examining and questioning of the minor students’.

BIDAR: A Bidar court in Karnataka on Friday granted bail to a student’s mother and teacher in the sedition case which was slapped for allegedly getting a group of Class IV students to enact a play with an anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) theme and hurl “communal slurs” at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Bidar court grants bail to the headmistress and mother of the student in sedition case

On January 21, students of the primary section of Shaheen School had staged a play that allegedly had anti-CAA dialogues.

Anti-CAA play in Bidar school: Bail orders of two arrested reserved

Headmistress Farida Begum and Nazbunnisa, the mother of a girl studying in fifth grade in the same school, are those arrested in the case.

Bidar sedition case: 14 days, struggling for freedom – Free Speech Collective

Schoolteacher and a parent have been in jail since January 30 for two simple lines in a school play that the police claim is seditious? Adv B T Venkatesh spoke to Geeta Seshu a day before he travelled to Bidar in Karnataka to represent the women in a bail application in the sedition case. Today, after hours of arguments, the case is now posted for orders on Feb 14, 2020, which will make it 14 days that they have been in jail.

A Sessions Court in Bidar, Karnataka on Friday granted bail to Fareeda Begum, head mistress of Shaheen Primary and High School and Nazbunnisa, the mother of a student, who were arrested over sedition charges for a play against CAA.

The mother of the 11-year-old student and the head-teacher of a Bidar school were arrested under charges of sedition on January 30 over an anti-CAA school play.

Nazbunnisa and Fareeda Begum, who were arrested on January 30 on sedition charges, were released from Bidar district prison on Saturday evening after they fulfilled bail conditions and other formalities. Hundreds of activists and members of the Shaheen School management received and welcomed them as they came out of the jail.

Principal District and Sessions Court in Bidar on Friday granted conditional bail to Nazbunnisa and Fareeda Begum who were arrested on January 30 on sedition charges.

They were arrested by Bidar Police on basis of a complaint filed by a ABVP member alleging that a school play contained a dialogue that insulted Prime Minister Narendra Modi

It has been just over a month since minor students of Shaheen Urdu Primary School in Karntaka’s Bidar performed a play critical of NRC-CAA on 21 January.

Public Prosecutor woefully unprepared to face the defence lawyer’s one hour plus non-stop argument in court in Bidar sedition case.