The Mahatma to the defence

October 16, 2019 09:52

On Tuesday, Justice Sarang Kotwal of the Bombay high court denied bail to activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira. Bharadwaj and the others were arrested by the Pune police in August last year on charges that they were associated with the outlawed Maoists.

After Bharadwaj was arrested, Ramachandra Guha, historian and Gandhi's biographer, was in no doubt that the Mahatma would have donned his lawyer's robes and defended Bharadwaj, an IIT-Delhi alumnus who has spent her life defending the rights of Adivasis in Chhattisgarh.

To mark the denial of bail to Bharadwaj and the others, here's another look at Uttam Ghosh's take on the issue.

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