Note: This story ends with a video of Navreet Singh’s facial injuries that some readers may find disturbing. New Delhi: The family of Navreet Singh, the young man killed during the tractor parade in the capital on January 26, has refused to accept the Delhi police claim that he died …
Read More »Sedition case filed after alleged pro-Pak slogans during election celebrations in K’taka
Dakshina Kannada police said a video allegedly showing pro-Pakistan slogans was distributed during SDPI celebrations in Ujire. Police in the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka recorded an FIR (First Information Report) on Wednesday after members of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) allegedly raised pro-Pakistan slogans during celebrations when …
Read More »15-year-old boy detained by police for threatening to kill Yogi Adityanath – lucknow
A week after the Uttar Pradesh police detained him for allegedly threatening to “blow up” the state’s prime minister, Yogi Adityanath, the family of the 15-year-old Agra boy await his return. However, the family has described the child’s action as “childish.” The boy’s 70-year-old grandmother said she was not home …
Read More »Authorities “use” sedition laws, says former Supreme Court Justice Madan B Lokur
Former chief judge of the court, Madan B Lokur, spoke about new methods to “silence speech.” (Proceedings) New Delhi: The law is being misused to curb freedom of the press and expression, said former Supreme Court Justice Madan B Lokur. He said that “a lethal cocktail of use and abuse …
Read More »Former South Carolina judge says sedition laws now ‘armed’
File photo of Judge Madan B Lokur. Former Supreme Court Justice Madan B Lokur was especially critical of the “abuse” of prohibition orders and the general shutdown of the Internet. PTI Last update: October 12, 2020 11:50 PM IST FOLLOW US: The law is being misused to curb freedom of …
Read More »Hathras Rape Case Live Updates: Victim’s Family Leaves for Lucknow Amid Tight Security to Testify in High Court Today
Hathras rape case LIVE update: The family of the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly raped and succumbed to her injuries departed for Lucknow this morning to record their statements in the Lucknow court of two High Court judges of Allahabad. The woman’s parents and siblings will record their statements, …
Read More »Malayalam journalist and three others subject to sedition, UAPA
New Delhi: Malayalam journalist Siddique Kappan and three other people who were arrested by UP police in Mathura on Monday while on their way to Hathras have been arrested under the provisions of the Illicit Activity (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and sedition . On Tuesday, a local Mathura court referred them …
Read More »‘No government invoked sedition after rape’: Congress to Yogi Adityanath
In demanding a judicial investigation into the incident of rape of Hathras by a Supreme Court judge or Supreme Court judge, Congress on Wednesday called the response of the Uttar Pradesh government on the issue “strange” and alleged that he has been charging sedition charges as if these were “pickpocket” …
Read More »Kerala journalist, three others booked in UP under UAPA, sedition charges
Siddique Kappan and three others, Atiq-ur Rehman, Masood Ahmed and Alam, were arrested on the way to Hathras for having “ties to the PFI”. Uttar Pradesh police have searched Malayalam journalist Siddique Kappan and three other people for sedition, as well as under strict UAPA, a day after they were …
Read More »Journalist and 3 other people on the way to Hathras arrested, charged with anti-terrorism law
A journalist and three other people who were heading to Hathras and were arrested by Uttar Pradesh police earlier this week were searched under the Illicit Activities (Prevention) and Sedition Act, according to an FIR registered in Mathura on Wednesday. The four, who had been arrested in Mathura on Monday, …
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