A plain reading of FIR No. 59 doesn’t provide any substantive evidence against the accused. In fact, no section has been invoked and only two accused have been named by the police.

According to reports, Delhi Police has claimed that it relied on CD-R data and WhatsApp chats for evidence.

Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid was arrested by Delhi Police under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) after being questioned for over 11 hours in relation to the Delhi riots case.

Umar Khalid has been arrested by the special cell of the Delhi Police. The arrest was made late on Sunday night. Khalid has been charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

The Delhi Police said Asif Iqbal Tanha was part of a 'preplanned, multi-layered and deep-rooted conspiracy' to cause communal riots in Delhi.

The Delhi Police took action on a complaint lodged by Javadekar after he received over a lakh mails on his personal email account.

The Jammu and Kashmir police said they are also looking for the arrested woman's daughter who has also been named in an FIR in militancy-related cases.

Safoora was arrested under the anti-terror law --UAPA-- in a case related to communal violence in northeast Delhi during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Masrat Zahra was named the winner of the 2020 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. The jury praised the 26-year-old’s work for its sense of 'dread and community.'

Jamia Millia Islamia was born in a crisis, and if during its centenary year it’s mired in another, so be it.

Delhi Police seems to be reminding us that rule of law, justice, fairness etc shall be defined the way the government pleases, writes academician Manisha Sethi

Kashmir-based journalist Gowhar Geelani who has been slapped with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act by the J&K Police, tells Outlook that such moves may 'either silence us or make more people speak out'.

Lawyers and kin of jailed activists allege harassment as inordinate delay in court proceedings seems to be motivated

Contentious Bills like the Triple Talaq needed scrutiny, feels the Opposition but the NDA, as data shows, does not believe in delaying its stamp of authority

Rights activists and lawyers ­demand the repeal of laws like sedition and UAPA that used to silence ­dissent

Draconian laws are used to harass dissidents, violating their right to due process

Cow smuggling, dancing to a DJ’s song, criticising the government...Do they constitute sedition? Do these acts threaten national security?

Prof Shoma Sen was ­arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, as were activists Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut and Sudhir Dhawale, and lawyer Surendra Gadling as part of the ­police probe into the violence at Bhima-Koregaon.

Arresting activists is an attack on dissent in keeping with UAPA’s history

After the violence in Punjab, Congress legislated the Terrorism and Anti-Disruptive Activities (Prevention)...