According to police, the FIR was initially registered under IPC Sections 153A (promoting enmity between groups) and 505 (creating or publishing content to promote enmity). Section 124A (sedition) of the IPC was included on...
“Of hundreds of journalists in Manipur, (ask yourself) why are these two arrested every time? Talking about cow urine at a time of someone’s death is beyond morality and humanity.”
The life a terror accused returns to after acquittal is nothing like what was snatched away. The tragedy doesn’t end outside jail.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said stringent action will be taken against those people, who celebrated Pakistan’s recent victory against India in a T-20 World Cup match.
The MP has been also booked under sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language) and 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage...
Today you can go in without bail for a tweet or for stating that cow urine can’t cure Covid. But the history of this Orwellian nightmare is long. How do the various states stack up?
Senior Congress leader and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh Aziz Qureshi allegedly referred to the Yogi Adityanath government in the state as a "blood-sucking demon".
Unwarranted curtailment of individual liberty in the name of counter-terrorism by the State is the greatest tragedy of our times.
A pro-Khalistani outfit threatened to stop Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur from unfurling national tricolour on August 15, the Independence day.
Responding to the allegations of the administration, the filmmaker - represented by advocate K A Akbar - has claimed that she had not deleted any material from...
No party is a saint when it comes to the abuse of anti-terror laws: ‘prison without bail’ is a clause crying out for abuse. Bottomline: UAPA, NSA and the...
Elangbam Ranjita wrote to the state government on Tuesday, a day after the Supreme Court set free political activist Erendro Leichombam held on the same...
The professor surrendered to Additional Sessions Judge Anurag Kumar and moved an interim bail application on Tuesday.
Erendro Leichombam was detained on May 13 under NSA over a Facebook post in which he said that cow dung or cow urine will not cure Covid-19.
Out of these cases, charge sheets were filed in 141 cases while just six people were convicted for the offence during the six-year period.
Anarchist for some, emancipator for others…but not a terrorist, says the court. The peasant leader walks free with stinging words on the NIA, saying it tried...
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The bench agreed to examine the pleas filed by Editors Guild of India and a former major general, challenging the constitutionality of the law, and said its...
Sirsa Police in Haryana has booked nearly 100 farmers and farm leaders in Haryana following an attack on Haryana Deputy Speaker and BJP leader Ranbir Gangwa.
Asking if India still needed the colonial-era law, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana sought a Centre on pleas including the one filed by the Editors Guild of...
The responses to an editorial I wrote earlier highlighted how divided the country has become, and possibly how devoid of compassion many of our citizens are.
For the last few years, Wangkhem has been in and out of jails, labeled as someone very dangerous for the nation by influential persons who have slapped him...
Any post-mortem of how state and courts failed Swamy will be a case of too little, too late.
There are instances where even juveniles were booked under the UAPA.
Arresting an old, ailing man like Stan Swamy was in itself controversial. The State requires serious soul-searching if it has to even keep up its pretensions...
