Indian judiciary and executive together doing a disgusting mockery of democratic process when you compare #YatiNarsinghanand getting bail in just a month and Dr kafeel Khan spending a year. Umar Khalid and others still in jail. We should all be ashamed of this.
RW pretend they don't know the issue. Muslim leaders getting far more punishments for doing no crime while Hindu religious leaders getting almost no punishment or very little for graver crime. Yati called for genocide, Khan called for unity. State used UAPA selectively.
Why UAPA on #Kafeelkhan but not on #YatiNarsinghanand? State police have absolutely no explanation. UAPA is a vague law. No proper definition of what is unlawful actives so a biased State is using it selectively against those they don't like eg Muslim leaders, liberals.
But crying victim all the time is of no use unless we can show courage to challenge the oppressor. It's been so long that UAPA/sedition is being misused by BJP states / Centre but lawyers are not invoking malicious prosecution / wrongful incarceration suits against govt. Why?
In US, there are lawyers who specialize in taking up case of wrongful conviction. There is "Innocence Project" dedicated to get justice for those in jail/death row due to wrongful conviction. When will Indian lawyers get there? Ye bhi mujha hi karna parega lagta hai.
In India there are millions in jails without any conviction at all. State uses law arbitrarily to deny bail. Sometimes they are too poor to hire a lawyer. Personal liberty is a big thing for SC when Arnab is arrested not when Umar Khalid or Kafeel Khan or Stan Swamy is arrested.
My column on this issue written sometime back but I keep raising the same question again and again.
When will citizens get the right to sue the state for wrongful confinement? nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/when-w…
When will citizens get the right to sue the state for wrongful confinement? nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/when-w…
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