-IndiaToday.in A Delhi court said the police 'made no effort' in the northeast Delhi riots investigation. A Delhi court pulled up the Delhi Police over lack of proper investigation into the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, while discharging three men accused of rioting, arson and various offences. One of the accused includes Shah Alam, brother of former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain. The case relates to the looting and damage caused to Anand...
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UAPA’s inherently flawed architecture and the role of courts -Gautam Bhatia
-Hindustan Times A perusal of UAPA shows how its terms — for example, “membership” of unlawful or terrorist organisations — can be stretched to a boundless degree, allowing the State to persecute individuals for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, possessing the wrong kind of literature, or meeting the wrong kind of people, without anything further. The recent judgment of the Delhi High Court (HC), granting bail to three...
More »Delhi communal riots: Facebook’s role ‘must be looked into’, says SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Business Line The Supreme Court adds that the panel cannot behave like a prosecution agency The Supreme Court on Thursday said Facebook ought to appear before the Delhi Legislative Assembly Committee of Peace and Harmony, enquiring into the circumstances leading to the February 2020 communal riots. Investigation of a socially complicated problem is within the domain of the legislature, the court noted. A judgement pronounced by Justice S.K. Kaul, however, said the...
More »Lack of Political Will, Not Grains, Is Why We Do Not Have Universal PDS -Shambhavi Sharma and Sourya Majumder
-TheWire.in Can the Union government exercise its sovereignty in extending food subsidies to states during a historic crisis despite an enlarged fiscal deficit? Some states have started responding to the Supreme Court’s directions on ensuring food security, cash transfers and transportation for migrant workers. It is time the Union government steps up. In a suo moto hearing on May 13, the Supreme Court observed that migrant workers have once again been left in...
More »AI tech is increasingly being used by police worldwide. Here’s why India needs to regulate it -Gaurav Jain & Raghav Chopra
-Scroll.in Technologies are known to increase bias, resulting in inaccurate judgements for minorities. In 2012, in United States’ Santa Cruz, a company called Predpol Inc devised a software that promised to predict future criminal activities by analysing past criminal records and identifying patterns. This simple idea of “predictively policing” an unsuspecting population aimed to change the face of law and order in the US. Police departments in major US cities began to use...
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