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Telangana police invoke UAPA against social media handle critical of Congress govt

The Telangana Police’s Intelligence Wing has invoked the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against the news platform TeluguScribe, seeking details of its X (formerly Twitter) account to identify its operator. Police allege that the account frequently posts objectionable content.

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‘My life stopped’: What 5 years of waiting meant to the families of Delhi riots undertrials

After spending over five years in jail as undertrials, five accused were recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in the 2020 Delhi riots “larger conspiracy” case. The court refused bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. The trial is yet to formally begin in the UAPA case in which…

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‘Raises deep concerns’ and ‘disturbing questions’: Newspapers on SC decision to deny Umar Khalid bail

After the Supreme Court denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, several activists and legal experts have raised concerns about what the decision means for liberty and justice. While the court did acknowledge that prolonged incarceration, particularly pre-trial detention, seriously infringes the…

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‘Different footing’: SC denies bail to Umar, Sharjeel, but grants relief to Gulfisha, Meeran, 3 others

The Supreme Court has denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam booked under the UAPA in the 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case. Though the court has granted bail to five other accused, including Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa ur Rehman, Shadab Ahmed and Mohd Saleem Khan.

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Minutes after the blast: Inside the chaos at Delhi’s Red Fort

The blast near Red Fort has claimed at least 12 lives so far and left over 20 injured. The Delhi Police have invoked UAPA and agencies are investigating all angles. The cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained.

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‘Trial at natural pace’: What HC said while denying bail to Umar, Sharjeel, others

Hearing the bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and seven others accused in the Delhi riots conspiracy case, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday denied them relief, according to LiveLaw.

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‘Didn’t feel routine’: Siddique Kappan claims Kerala cops tried to visit home at midnight

Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan and his family have alleged that a team of policemen tried to visit his house in Mallappuram’s Vengara at midnight, inciting fear.

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MHA forms tribunal to review ULFA's status as an unlawful association

The tribunal will be headed by Justice Michael Zothankhuma of the Gauhati High Court, mentioning a gazette notification issued by the MHA. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Umar Khalid gets 7-day interim bail in Delhi riots case to attend family wedding

A Delhi court has granted a seven-day bail to jailed activist Umar Khalid to attend a family wedding. The former JNU scholar, who has been in custody for over four years in a UAPA case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots, will be required to surrender by January 3, 2025,…

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SC relaxes Siddique Kappan’s bail condition

The Supreme Court has relaxed Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan’s bail condition which made it mandatory for him to record his presence at a police station in Uttar Pradesh every Monday in connection with the alleged Hathras conspiracy case, LiveLaw reported.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 339: Kashmir’s media crisis, Adani’s violation of NGT orders

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.

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SC seeks UP govt’s reply on journalist Siddique Kappan’s plea to ease bail conditions

The Supreme Court has sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response to a petition filed by Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan seeking relaxation of a bail condition in a UAPA case that requires him to report to the state’s Hathras police station every Monday, Livelaw reported.

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‘Shocked by my arrest’: PDP leader Waheed Para on media, youth, militancy

People’s Democratic Party leader Waheed ur Rehman Para, who has been the party’s youth face, was booked under the stringent UAPA in 2020 and spent two years in incarceration. Now, he is fighting the assembly poll from Pulwama.

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‘Never got funds from foreign govt’: Singham’s business partner to Delhi police in NewsClick case

About two months after the Delhi Police Special Cell summoned five persons to join the investigation in the UAPA case against NewsClick chief Prabir Purkayastha, US-based Neville Roy Singham’s business partner Jason Pfetcher has replied, Indian Express reported. He reportedly said that People’s Support Foundation never received funds from any…

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‘BJP using UAPA as tool’: India’s youngest MP on political agenda, poll victory

Samajwadi Party leader Pushpendra Saroj had turned 25 years old just two weeks before the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls. He managed to win UP’s Kaushambi seat by defeating the BJP’s Vinod Sonkar, a two-time MP, with a margin of over 1 lakh votes.

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Open letter in India calls for withdrawal of go-ahead to prosecute Arundhati Roy

Over 200 signatories urge government to reverse decision enabling action against writer under anti-terrorism law

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The hounding of Arundhati Roy shows there’s still no room for dissent in India

Some thought the BJP’s reduced majority after recent elections would humble it. Tell that to the Booker prize-winning author, says writer Salil Tripathi

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Delhi L-G grants nod to prosecute Arundhati Roy in UAPA case

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has granted sanction to prosecute author Arundhati Roy under the UAPA for her alleged provocative speech at an event in 2010, according to PTI.

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At Delhi event, NewsClick founder on ‘transformation after arrest’, meetings in jail

At about 5 pm today, while the temperature in Delhi touched 37 degrees Celsius, the open space on the ground floor of Delhi’s Press Club of India thronged with people. They’d all turned up to attend “Freedom of Expression in Today’s India” in solidarity with NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha.

The Hindu

The cases and charges against the Bhima Koregaon 16 | Explained

Bhima Koregaon case: Legal status of the 16 activists, lawyers, scholars and artists arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case in 2018.

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Case ‘seems fictional’, ‘perils of alternate justice system’: Editorials laud Prabir Purkayastha’s release

NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha walked out of Tihar Jail on Wednesday night, hours after the Supreme Court said his arrest was illegal and ordered his immediate release.

The Hindu

Delhi court grants bail to NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha after ‘invalid’ arrest; conditions imposed

NewsClick founder released; Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to NewsClick founder and editor Prabir Purkayastha in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case.

The Hindu

Probe agencies must give written grounds of arrest in UAPA cases, Supreme Court declares in NewsClick judgment

Supreme Court held that the right to life and personal liberty is the most sacrosanct of fundamental rights while declaring that investigating agencies should provide people arrested under the UAPA.

The Hindu

Why was NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha’s arrest invalidated by the top Court? | Explained

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha arrest: Insulating accused persons against arbitrary police action, the Supreme Court said that the intimation of written grounds of arrest is ‘sacrosanct’ and applicable in all UAPA cases

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SC orders release of NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha, says arrest illegal

The Supreme Court has ordered the release of NewsClick founder and editor Prabir Purkayastha in the UAPA case after holding that his arrest and remand were illegal, LiveLaw reported.

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