Thursday, April 18, 2024

Topic: UAPA

Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Kashmir…; Three states with highest number of UAPA prisoners

Nearly 57% of those arrested under the draconian UAPA between 2018 and 2020 were under the age of 30, the Union told Parliament on Tuesday, citing crime statistics compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Sudha Bharadwaj walks out of jail after three years

Prominent lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj, arrested over three years and three months ago in the Bhima Koregaon case under draconian UAPA walked out from Byculla women’s jail on Thursday.

NIA challenges Sudha Bharadwaj’s bail in Supreme Court

The Bombay HC had also directed Sudha Bharadwaj to be produced before the Special NIA Court on December 8 to decide the conditions of bail.

Bhima Koregaon case: NIA court rejects Anand Teltumbde’s temporary bail plea

A National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai on Wednesday rejected the temporary bail application of prominent human rights activist and Dalit intellectual Anand Teltumbde,...

Bombay HC grants default bail to Sudha Bharadwaj in Bhima Koregaon case

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted default bail to prominent lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case.

He should be allowed to work when you say it’s a democracy: Khurram Parvez’s wife

Sameena Mir sits composed at her home in Srinagar, now empty and taken over by a deafening silence. Last week, her husband, Khurram Parvez, the region’s most prominent human rights defender, was arrested by India’s premier investigation agency under a stringent anti-terror law.