SC judge had used the term while talking about shelters for homeless people in Delhi. Mander noted he felt compelled to respond particularly to 2 words used—parasites & freebies.
The Centre for Equity Studies and its chairperson Harsh Mander are accused of transferring funds from its foreign contribution account to individuals & firms. Case was registered Wednesday.
Searches have been conducted since Friday after an FIR was filed Wednesday against Mander and Centre for Equity Studies (CES). Mander sits on the CES's governing board.
NCPCR files report on Ranchi shelter in Delhi HC. Case relates to 2 other children's homes run by activist Harsh Mander's organisation CES, but lawyer says Ranchi home isn't run by them.
Activists say Harsh Mander has been facing 'continued harassment by multiple state agencies, call ED raids part of 'continuing chain of abuse of state institutions' to silence critics.
The case is based on an FIR filed in February by Delhi Police's economic offences wing against the Centre for Equity Studies that runs two NGOs for children. Mander is its director.
Delhi Police has registered an FIR over a complaint by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights. The body has made allegations against Mander too.
A book titled 'Sudha Bharadwaj Speaks: A Life in Law and Activism', based on a long interview just before Bharadwaj's arrest in 2018, was released Sunday.
New Delhi: During Operation Sindoor, the United States which had received intelligence suggesting that India had launched BrahMos cruise missiles to strike targets inside...
Activists surely love to “bend it like Beckham” or worse even more ! Homeless and freebies are equating apples to oranges. Mr Mander should introspect of an iPhone wielding lady travelling for free in a government bus is the same as a homeless person. And if there are 800 million homeless people in India who need to be fed. The SC too is not all innocent. It did not feed its wisdom for the past decade when “free bijlee, free paani” discourse rode a certain political entity to power for most part of last decade.
Activists surely love to “bend it like Beckham” or worse even more ! Homeless and freebies are equating apples to oranges. Mr Mander should introspect of an iPhone wielding lady travelling for free in a government bus is the same as a homeless person. And if there are 800 million homeless people in India who need to be fed. The SC too is not all innocent. It did not feed its wisdom for the past decade when “free bijlee, free paani” discourse rode a certain political entity to power for most part of last decade.