🧵#Zubair case: Do Police Have The Right To Unfettered Access To Your Phones, Laptops?
Power of arrest is so casually exercised in India today. Much leeway is given to police without parallel protections to accused: Senior Adv Rebecca John @scroll_in
The process has been reversed. You haven't first sought material that may be relevant for investigation. Instead you arrest him. Its an admission that you have no case against him. After arresting you're saying let's recover laptop to determine if any other offense is committed
Jun 23, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Who decides which faction of Shiv Sena is the real Sena- Eknath Shinde's v Uddhav Thackeray's?
Speaker or the EC? Does the faction having majority MLAs have the upper hand?
I asked PDT Acharya, former Secretary General of the Lok Sabha @scroll_in
scroll.in/article/102672…
PDT Achary:👆This will be decided by the EC and nobody else. When there is a split in the party and this is a de facto split, and both factions claim to be the original, then it goes to the Election Commission. speaker has nothing to do with this. @scroll_in
Jun 9, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🧵SC lawyer Shahrukh Alam
TV news anchors are breathtaking in their shallowness. They contribute to structural violence against Muslims. They tell ppl Muslims are invaders, predators. It has everyday consequences. Tht harm isn't recognised by criminal law
Shahrukh Alam: Those like Sudarshan Chavhanke cause overt violence. He invites viewers to enact what he is saying &upload their own videos. He'd say boycott Muslim vendors, then you'd see somebody from a small town in UP or MP upload a video of them beating a poor muslim vendor
Mar 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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“Russia is not North Korea or Iran. Implications of these sanctions on the global economy will not be marginal
There is also no doubt the sanctions will deliver a crippling blow to Russia, will have a chilling effect
.@AmbMoKumar every sanction is double edged. Because we are so globally integrated today, you really can't sanction somebody on the basis of maximum pain for the adversary and zero pain for me. That is simply inconceivable and impossible even for a country like the United States
