-TheWire.in The activist has said the Narmada Navnirman Abhiyan has detailed audit reports accounting for all expenses. She also said the complainant has ties with the BJP and RSS. New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Police has registered an FIR against Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar and 11 others in Barwani district based on a complaint by a villager alleging the misuse of funds collected for managing educational facilities for tribal students. Patkar...
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SC urged to drop para cited to arrest activist Teesta Setalvad -Pheroze L Vincent
-The Telegraph A group of retired civil servants has also issued a statement urging the apex court to review its Zakia Jafri verdict A group of retired civil servants has issued a statement urging the Supreme Court to review its Zakia Jafri verdict and withdraw a paragraph that Gujarat police have cited to arrest social activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officer R.B. Sreekumar. The apex court had dismissed Zakia’s plea challenging a...
More »Assam: Three more held for damaging Silchar dyke -Umanand Jaiswal
-The Telegraph The number of persons arrested in the case has gone up to four Guwahati: Three more persons have been arrested on charges of damaging a dyke that led to the flooding of Silchar in Assam on June 19 with water from the overflowing Barak river that runs along the town. The number of persons arrested in the case has gone up to four after the arrest of Mitu Hussain Laskar, Nazir...
More »‘Which door to knock now for justice?’ Urdu press asks after SC verdict on 2002 SIT -Abantika Ghosh
-ThePrint.in ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took. New Delhi: The arrest of social activist Teesta Setalvad and Indian Police Service (IPS) officer R.B. Sreekumar Sunday following the Supreme Court’s clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought back the 2002 Gujarat riots on the front pages of Urdu papers. On 24 June, the Supreme Court dismissed a...
More »Zubair arrest: UN says journalists shouldn’t be jailed for what they write or say
-Newslaundry.com ‘Journalists be allowed to express themselves freely and without the threat of any harassment,’ a spokesperson for the UN secretary general said. Journalists anywhere in the world should be allowed to express themselves freely and without the threat of harassment, a spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday in response to a question about the arrest of Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair. “In any place around the world, it is...
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