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By Nivedita Niranjankumar Media outlets including news wire agency ANI misreported an opinion piece published in The Print as a quote by Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) Vice President and party candidate from Baramulla constituency Omar Abdullah. The media reports claimed that the former J&K chief minister said that Rashid Sheikh winning the Lok Sabha elections from the region, is a sign that "Kashmiri secessionism is far from spent." Abdullah lost by a margin of nearly 2 lakh votes to independent candidate Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid. Founder of the Ja...
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By Ritika Jain Showkat Ganai just sits at home. He does nothing. The once-promising student is now worried about the mountain of debt incurred by a court case he is embroiled in. Ganai said his family had to sell farmland and take loans to match the legal expenses incurred. Ganai is one of the three Kashmiri students who was arrested in October 2021 for cheering Pakistan’s win against India in the T20 cricket finals. Two years later, life has completely changed for the 23-year-old. On November 20, seven Kashmiri students were arrested and charged under the provisions of the UAPA for raising pr...
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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court ruled that the Delhi Police remand of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha was sustainable since the grounds for arrest were conveyed to him at the time of his arrest. The high court said there were no procedural infirmities while dismissing Purkayastha’s plea challenging the October 3 police remand. “That apart there is nothing placed on record to demonstrate that the timelines as averred in the petition are factually correct in nature or even to suggest otherwise,” the high court judgment read. Significantly, the high court further observed that the Supreme Co...
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By Ritika Jain The Special Cell of the Delhi Police raided homes and offices of several journalists including columnists and commentators associated with NewsClick – a digital news organisation. The police has seized the journalists’ phones, laptops and other personal devices in connection with an UAPA case registered against the news portal in August. Journalists associated with the news portal confirmed the developments on social media. “Delhi police landed at my home. Taking away my laptop and phone,” journalist Abhisar Sharma wrote on X; while Bhasha Singh wrote: “Finally last tweet from t...
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By Ritika Jain In a significant order, the Supreme Court said mere membership of an organisation declared unlawful by the Centre is a crime under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 establishing the provision which persecutes one for guilt by association. The verdict by Justice MR Shah-led bench is a reversal of the top court's 12-year-old judgment which held that mere membership was insufficient grounds for an offence. The aim of UAPA is to prevent certain unlawful activities and prevent the same... UAPA is to punish the person who is a member of an unlawful organization…Thus, Section ...
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By Ritika Jain Days after he got bail, journalist Siddique Kappan sat at a park bench near his house, chatting with a former colleague. His wife Raihanat walked around, staying close to her husband and their daughter, who sat on a swing with a phone in her hand. Kappan walked out of a Lucknow jail on February 2, 2023, 28 months after the Uttar Pradesh police arrested him on October 5, 2020 when he was enroute to Hathras to cover the rape and murder of a Dalit girl. According to conditions imposed by a Supreme Court order, Kappan is required to stay in Delhi for six weeks before he can go to Ma...
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By Ritika Jain The Centre on Tuesday banned the Popular Front of India, an Islamist organisation, for five years, accusing it of "covertly working" to increase radicalization of one community by promoting a sense of insecurity in the country. The ban came on a recommendation made by the states of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat. A notification by the Home Ministry said that a PFI probe revealed that the party and its cadres have repeatedly engaged in violent and subversive acts including chopping the limbs of a college professor and cold-blooded killings of those associated with organisat...
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