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Some Lesser Identified Information About Shoma Sen

• She used to stay in a complicated locality in Bandra throughout her childhood.
  

  A childhood photograph of Shoma Sen (sporting spectacles) along with her siblings

• Throughout her teenage years, she was near the Vidyarthi Pragati Sangh (VPS) and browse extensively about communism.
  

  Shoma Sen throughout her teenage years

• She later moved to Nagpur in order that she may assist the ladies residing in poor areas of Maharashtra.

• Throughout her preliminary years in Nagpur, she taught English on the Individuals’s Welfare Society (PWS) faculty in Indora, Nagpur through the day and carried out conferences with ladies residing within the Juni Magalwari slums.
  

  Shoma Sen along with her daughter throughout her preliminary years in Nagpur

• When she was a member of a ladies’s organisation in Nagpur named Stree Chetna, she helped many ladies financially and likewise sheltered them in her personal home.

• Her husband, Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya, was arrested for alleged Maoist ties in 2007 and acquitted in 2013.
  

  Shoma Sen (proper) throughout a press convention when her husband was arrested

• Throughout her 40s, she had some variations along with her husband and began residing alone along with her daughter in Nagpur.
  

  Shoma Sen along with her daughter in Nagpur

• She has an expertise of round 4 a long time of instructing and later grew to become the top of the English literature division of the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur College.
  

  Shoma Sen talking at a operate of one of many faculties of Nagpur College

• On 6 June 2018, she was arrested by Pune Police in reference to Bhima Koregaon Violence (Elgar Parishad Case) which occurred on 1 January 2018.
  

  Shoma Sen throughout her arrest

• Reportedly, a number of Hindu individuals belonging to the higher caste pelted stones on the Dalit crowd which gathered in Bhima Koregaon, Pune to rejoice the 2 hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon which resulted within the loss of life of 1 particular person and accidents to many individuals.

• Apart from Shoma Sen, famous human rights activists Sudhir Dhawale, Mahesh Raut, Surendra Gadling and Rona Wilson have been additionally arrested in reference to the case and charged underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.

• On 15 June 2018, she was suspended from her instructing place by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur College.

• The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) alleged that she was an energetic member of the Communist Social gathering of India (CPI) (Maoist) and tried to organise a violent protest towards the state.

• Her daughter as soon as wrote in a information article that one of many cops, investigating the case, fell to Shoma’s ft and informed her that he was as soon as her scholar. He additionally expressed remorse over seeing her in jail.

• A number of individuals from numerous ladies and Dalit organisations did common protests to place strain on the federal government and courts to launch Shoma Sen and different arrested individuals.
  

  Individuals in a protest demanding the discharge of Shoma Sen

• On 14 February 2020, her case was transferred from Pune, Maharashtra, to a particular Nationwide Investigation Company court docket in Mumbai. On 21 September 2021, a court docket rejected Sen’s software for interim bail for medical causes.

• On 5 April 2024, the Supreme Court docket of India gave her bail as a result of no fees have been framed regardless of six years of arrest and well being issues (osteoarthritis, glaucoma, hypertension, and blood strain) resulting from her previous age.
  

  Shoma Sen’s daughter and husband, and her attorneys Indira Jaising and Anand Grover (left to proper) after her bail

• The situations of her bail have been that she shall not go away Maharashtra with out the go away of the trial court docket, give up her passport, inform her handle to NIA, use just one cell quantity intimated to NIA, and be sure that the telephone stays energetic and charged across the clock.

• Different situations included that she ought to maintain her cell phone’s location standing (GPS) energetic, pair the telephone with that of the NIA Investigating Officer to allow him to determine her precise location and report back to the SHO of the police station inside whose jurisdiction she shall reside, as soon as in each 15 days.

• Shoma Sen has been a member of the Committee for the Safety of Democratic Rights (CDPR). She has additionally served because the Nagpur College Academics Affiliation (NUTA) president.

• She as soon as filed a case within the Bombay Excessive Court docket for an Adivasi (tribal) girl of Gadchiroli who was raped in police custody and acquired justice for the sufferer.