India: another academic arrested on spurious accusations
Event- Country
- India
- Initial Date
- Jul 28, 2020
- Event Description
A special court here on Friday remanded Delhi University (DU) associate professor Hany Babu, arrested in connection with the Elgar Parishad case, in judicial custody till August 21.
Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil, 54, associate professor at the Department of English of the university, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 28 for his alleged involvement in the case.
He was sent to judicial custody by special court judge D E Kothalikar at the end of his NIA remand on Friday.
Earlier, the NIA had submitted before the court that the accused had links with the CPI (Maoists).
The case relates to the alleged inflammatory speeches made at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claimed triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial located on the outskirts of the western Maharashtra city.
The Pune police filed a charge sheet and a supplementary charge sheet in the case on November 15, 2018 and February 21, 2019, respectively.
The NIA took up the investigation in the case on January 24 this year.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Academic freedom
- Offline
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Academic
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 19.076723250804818
Longitude: 72.8766252123717
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 28 July 2020, Hany Babu, academic, was the fourth academic arrested over his alleged role in a violence incident upon order of a court in Mumbai, India.
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