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In today’s featured cartoon, Satish Acharya weighs in on the Supreme Court’s refusal to restrain AltNews co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair from using social media while out on bail. Zubair is facing police cases in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi over certain tweets.
E.P. Unny also refers to the stance taken by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court while granting bail to Mohammed Zubair. The court allowed Zubair’s plea to club all FIRs lodged against him, and transferred the probe to the Delhi Police Special Cell.
Sandeep Adhwaryu on the Supreme Court granting bail to Mohammed Zubair, who walked out of Delhi’s Tihar Jail Wednesday evening.
Sajith Kumar says Parliament isn’t the only House where rising prices have triggered chaos. The Opposition is demanding a discussion on price rise during the ongoing monsoon session. The BJP has said it is ready for a discussion as soon as Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recovers from Covid-19.
Kirtish Bhatt delivers his take on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s clarification that the 5 per cent GST on mass-consumption goods like flour, curd and wheat will not apply if they are sold loose and not pre-labelled. In the illustration, a woman can be seen asking a shopkeeper: “Open the 5 kg packet of flour and give me 2 kg from it.”
Also read: SC must protect Zubair the same way it did Nupur Sharma. This sham of a law should go now