Tufail Alam from Varanasi and Mohammed Haroon, a resident of Seelampur, Delhi, have been charged with intending to harm India's sovereignty, unity, and integrity.
On Thursday, Suhail Khan, president of Awami Aawaz Party, was arrested for anti-national comments. It came a year after he proclaimed his nationalist sentiments at Lal Chowk.
The National Crime Records Bureau discontinued collecting hate crime data after 2017, and the term ‘anti-national’ is not defined in law, the government told Parliament Tuesday.
‘Jihadi terrorists’, Naxals were added under a new section that also details instances of violence by ‘north-east insurgents’, ‘anti-national elements’ and ‘other terrorists'.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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