Topic: uttarpradesh

Twitter India chief Manish Maheshwari has been granted temporary protection from arrest by Uttar Pradesh Police by order of the Karnataka High Court, and does not have to travel to that state for questioning in connection with a case about tweets about the assault of a Muslim man in Ghaziabad.

Mohammad Alam was arrested in October 2020 along with three others- journalist Siddique Kappan, Campus Front of India (CFI) office-bearers Atiqur Rahman and Masood Ahmad while they were on their way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the rape and killing of a Dalit woman which had triggered nationwide outrage and visit the family members of deceased.

All India Da'wah Centres Association has said that the recent arrests of two Muslim scholars Mohammad Umar Gautam and Mufti Quazi Jahangeer Quasmi by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh under draconian anti-conversion law, violated the duo's constitutional rights at every stage.

The Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested Muslim clerics Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammad Umar Gautam from South Delhi's Jamia Nagar on Monday under the draconian anti-conversion law.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organisation that promotes press freedom worldwide, welcomed the decision by a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district to drop a breach of peace charge against Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, and urged authorities to drop all other charges against him and release him immediately.

“I want justice. I still believe in our Constitution, but justice is being delayed. This is a completely fake case,” said Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan as he was escorted out of a Mathura court in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.