-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 »Delhi riots: Justice Lokur castigates cops for mishandling of activists -R Balaji
-The Telegraph The former SC judge said the manner in which multiple FIRs were lodged, and the way Devangana was arrested, were unheard of in Indian judicial history The former Supreme Court judge, Justice Madan B. Lokur, has castigated Delhi police for “violating every canon of natural justice and fair play” in dealing with student anti-CAA activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha, who were recently freed on bail. Justice Lokur...
More »"Next, Sedition Case For This TV Channel?": Top Judge's Scathing Remark -A Vaidyanathan
-NDTV The exchange was hours before the same two judges put on hold Andhra Pradesh's action against two news channels and said: "It's time we define limits of sedition" New Delhi: During a hearing on the centre's oft-criticised vaccination policy, Supreme Court Justices DY Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao on Monday referred to visuals aired by NDTV of a dead body - a suspected COVID-19 patient - being dumped into a river...
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