Tag: UAPA

Top human rights group, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, has demanded that the authorities should immediately withdraw the prosecution against top author Arundhati Roy and Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a Kashmir academic, under the "unconstitutional" Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), calling the Delhi Lieutenant-Governor nod for the Delhi police move "politically motivated".

Through some recent judgements of Senthil Balaji, Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha, the Supreme Court has cemented the crucial right of an accused to be provided with grounds of arrest in writing, a constitutional right under Article 22, the failure to do so, vitiates the arrest itself

May 19, 2024I wish to thank the Supreme Court...

Even though the Court found no reason to doubt Sultan’s conduct as well as no chances of him fleeing justice, stringent restrictions on Sultan's communication methods and movements were imposed as bail conditions

Serving as an under trial prisoner since 2020 and not convicted so far, Sharjeel Imam, taken into custody after the anti-CAA movements when activists associated with the movement were being arrested, has completed more than half of the maximum sentence that the cases against him suggest

While some bail pleas were swiftly addressed, many languished. A retrospective of 2023: Did the courts adequately safeguard the dwindling right to liberty for India's citizens?

Release jailed editors, drop criminal charges, stop muzzling media through draconian laws, and enact a law to protect journalists from persecution: NAJ, DUJ, KUJ and others; several unions of working journalists have appealed strongly for enactment of a law to protect media persons from false prosecutions and enactment of the Wage Board and establishment of a Media Commission of India

The Court held that there was no prima facie case made out against accused under UAPA and Arms Act, granted relief of bail; allegations suggested that the accused was planning to commit some terrorist acts based on relations with Pakistan

The Union Home Affairs Ministry notification issued Monday, November 13m said the organisations were banned for five years for their “anti-national activities, and launching fatal attacks on security forces.”

These are critical times in India’s history: in fact,...