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NewsClick founder challenges arrest, Delhi High Court seeks police response

Hearing a petition by NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and the outfit’s HR head Amit Chakraborty against their arrest in a UAPA case, the Delhi High Court sought the Delhi police’s response on Friday, according to a LiveLaw report. The court will hear the matter again on Monday.

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Action against NewsClick a chilling attempt to silence brave voices, says joint statement by civil society members

Prominent civil society members express shock over raids on NewsClick, arrest of two; call it a "chilling attempt to silence brave voices". Signatories urge stakeholders to speak up against harassment of NewsClick and its contributors. They worry about "manufactured pieces of evidence" being planted in confiscated devices.

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‘McCarthyian’, ‘undeclared Emergency’: Editorials slam government over NewsClick case

After the NewsClick case was front-page news across major English newspapers yesterday, media houses kept the momentum going with editorials slamming the government.

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After NewsClick raids, journalists’ collectives write to CJI, say ‘journalism cannot be prosecuted as terrorism’

Journalists' collectives urge CJI to check "inherent malice" behind raids on 46 journalists, writers & professionals connected to NewsClick. Invocation of UAPA "especially chilling". Police provided "vague assertions of some unspecified offence". Intimidation of media affects democratic fabric. CJI urged to intervene & frame norms against seizure of devices, evolve…

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Gautam Navlakha, farm stir, Kashmir map: In Delhi cops’ application for NewsClick founder custody

NewsClick’s founder Prabir Purkayastha and its HR head Amit Chakravarty have been sent to seven-day police custody following their arrest in a UAPA case against the organisation. However, the Delhi Police Special Cell had initially sought 15-day police custody for the two, alleging that there was electronic evidence suggesting a…

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NewsClick slams bid to ‘stifle fearless voices’, founder moves court for copy of FIR

A day after NewsClick’s founder Prabir Purkayastha was arrested in a UAPA case against the organisation, his lawyers have approached the Patiala House Court in Delhi seeking a copy of the FIR. Purkayastha and NewsClick HR head Amit Chakravarty were arrested on Tuesday and have been sent to seven-day police…

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‘Terror whip on media house’: Front pages on NewsClick police searches and arrests

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and the news outfit’s HR head Amit Chakravarty were arrested after hours of questioning by the Delhi Police special cell on Tuesday. They were sent to seven days in police custody this morning.

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Delhi Police arrest NewsClick founder, HR head in alleged terror case

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and Amit Chakravarty have been arrested. Further investigation is in progress, the Deputy Commissioner of Police said.

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‘Targeted harassment campaign’: Press bodies condemn police searches against NewsClick

Multiple press bodies have condemned the Delhi police’s UAPA case against NewsClick and its search of journalists’ houses this morning.

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Armed miscreants who wore police uniforms, carrying guns in Manipur get bail in UAPA case

Special NIA court in Imphal grants bail to five armed miscreants arrested in a UAPA case by the Manipur Police while they were travelling in police camouflage and with sophisticated arms and ammunition.

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The Bharatiya Nayay Sanhita needs a relook

The Parliamentary Standing Committee must ensure that inconsistencies are checked, vague expressions are removed, appropriate explanations added, and drafting errors eliminated

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From judge’s recusal to lawyer’s unavailability: Umar Khalid’s bail plea hangs by thread

“This is a matter that may take one or two minutes,” a Supreme Court bench had remarked while adjourning a Delhi riots case on July 12. The “matter” in question was the bail plea of activist and former JNU scholar Umar Khalid — incarcerated since September 2020 under charges of…

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SC adjourns hearing on Umar Khalid's plea seeking bail in UAPA case

SC adjourns Umar Khalid's plea for bail in UAPA case for a week; HC had rejected it citing prima facie evidence of 'terrorist act'. Khalid seeks bail on grounds of no criminal role in riots & no 'conspiratorial connect' with other accused. Police allege 'calculated' speech.

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Causing floods is a terrorist offence in proposed law to replace Indian Penal Code

Proposed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill (BNS) seeks to replace British-era Indian Penal Code and defines terrorism as separate offence. Section 111 (6) (a) says causing floods is terrorist offence. Bill lacks procedural safeguards against false implication and has provisions for min 5-year imprisonment and death sentence.

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Supreme Court adjourns hearing on Umar Khalid’s bail plea for two weeks

The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned for two weeks the hearing on a plea filed by former JNU student Umar Khalid seeking bail in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over his alleged involvement in the conspiracy behind the northeast Delhi riots of February 2020.

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11-member Maoists’ team visits Aralam

Police in Aralam have registered a case under UAPA against an 11-member Maoist gang for staging a demonstration with guns in Keezhpally Vietnam. Nine of the gang members have been identified, with police intensifying efforts to identify the remaining two. The group was led by C.P. Moidheen. They spread Maoist…

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Morning Digest | New criminal laws will have no bearing on UAPA and MCOCA, says Centre; T.N. to move Supreme Court as Karnataka refuses to share Cauvery water, and more

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Supreme Court judge recuses from hearing Umar Khalid’s plea

The Supreme Court adjourned the Umar Khalid bail hearing on a UAPA case as Justice P.K. Mishra recused himself.

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Bhima Koregaon case: SC grants bail to Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira after 5 years in jail under UAPA

Nearly five years after their arrest under the UAPA for alleged Maoist links in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case, activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira have been granted bail by the Supreme Court. The “materials available against them at this stage cannot justify continued detention”, the court observed.

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Anticipatory bail plea in UAPA cases not maintainable: HC

Kerala HC holds anticipatory bail not maintainable in UAPA cases; dismisses appeal filed by accused in diplomatic gold smuggling case.

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Scientists, academicians write to IISc. Director expressing dismay over UAPA discussion

The discussion was to be led by Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, activists who participated in the movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

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Need to educate people on UAPA

Political parties should commit themselves to withdrawing UAPA, say members of civil society at a round table on the filing of cases under the draconian law against human rights activists and others

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Shahina KK wins CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award for 2023

Journalist Shahina KK is among the four winners of the International Press Freedom Award for 2023, the Committee to Protect Journalists announced yesterday. The award recognises “formidable reporters working tirelessly to expose corruption, abuse, and wrongdoing despite considerable efforts to silence them”.

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Rethink the retention of sedition

The Law Commission has concluded that it was necessary to retain Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on ‘sedition’ as it was useful in countering the threat to India’s internal security.

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