Topic: draconian laws

While posing a question to the Attorney General of India KK Venugopal during the hearing on a plea challenging the validity of the sedition law, the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana expressed alarm at the rampant misuse of sedition law in the country.

Bashir Ahmad Baba, then 31, left his home for Gujarat taking his father’s leave for 10 days only to return on June 23 this year after languishing for 11 years in Vadodara Central Jail in Gujarat following his wrongful conviction under the draconian UAPA.

Legal experts from the US, the UK and India have said India is abusing its anti-terrorism law to imprison human rights defenders and civil activists for years on false charges, without bail or even a trial.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has given an assurance that the new draft laws for Lakshadweep that are being opposed by the islanders will not be finalised without consulting local representatives, Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal said on Monday.

Former administrators of Lakshadweep, Omesh Saigal and Wajahat Habibullah have sought interventions of country's top officials including Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Home Minister Amit Shah in halting implementation of the draconian proposals initiated in Lakshadweep.

I am talking about Lakshadweep and its current administrator, Praful K Patel. Since his entry, he has been introducing draconian and ridiculously fascist laws that have the tendency to disrupt, displace and even end the life of the people of Lakshadweep.