Police say people from hostels of SKIMS and Government Medical College 'burst crackers, danced and raised anti-India slogans' after Pakistan win. The accused are yet to be identified.
A father-son duo was accused of harbouring people who 'instigated' tribals to participate in Naxal activities. Police cited newspaper articles & Bhagat Singh book as evidence.
In the overall number of cases registered under 'Offences against State', however, there was a decline — 5,613 cases in 2020 against 7,656 cases in 2019.
In the past four days, 16 Muslims have been arrested for pro-Taliban posts on social media, including an MBBS student, a constable with the Assam Police, a teacher and a journalist.
Kamtapur Liberation Organisation chief Singha was also booked under sedition charges for demanding a separate state comprising the areas in the northern parts of West Bengal.
Retired SC judges Gopala Gowda, Deepak Gupta, Aftab Alam & M.B. Lokur said definition of terror under UAPA and sedition vague, needs to be defined through judicial pronouncements.
A bench of Justices S K Kaul and Hemant Gupta responded to Delhi police's plea to set aside bail granted to three activists and said that debates on bail orders are 'troubling'.
Sedition law isn’t just a colonial hangover. It’s a convenient weapon for under-performing governments to conflate themselves with the nation and use against critics.
Umar Khalid along with several others has been booked under UAPA and is accused of being one of the 'masterminds' of the riots in Northwest Delhi in February 2020.
In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.
Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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