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Assam: Gauhati HC quashes NSA detention of activist Pranab Doley
Doley was arrested in July this year for a protest against a hotel project near Kaziranga, and had been booked under the nefarious National Security Act (NSA) after a court granted him bail; Forum for Social Harmony, AMSU-AIKMS and BAA accuse the Assam government of criminalising land rights activism
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Police cannot use power to summon to intimidate, harass, threaten: SC
The Apex Court said that it is entrusted with safeguarding the right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under the Constitution.
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