Sorry I couldn't read the full article since it cuts off behind a signup wall.
Anyway for anyone wondering who Arnab goswami is: he is one of the vilest people in the Indian media industry who loves to bully people and do media trials which have ruined many peoples lives like this(1)
India's ill-defined laws about things like "terrorism" and "sedition" are truly horrendous. Rules let people be held in jail for years while the police "investigate", and a pliant court system refuses to censure deliberately slow and sloppy investigations by the authorities.
It's a system which lets governments, and particularly the current government, target political opposition with impunity, instilling fear among other opponents and critics. If you don't have strong political backing or public prominence, you risk your freedom if you oppose the government.
In the latest bizzare example of government abuse of the arbitrary and slow legal system, a person who turned off the police's water cannon which they were using to spray farmers in a protest has been charged with attempt to murder.
"Obstructing a public servant in the discharge of public functions" -- that would have made sense, but attempt to murder? Of course, because it's a non-bailable offense, so the police will now beat the shit out of him in custody. In the past few years they have maimed and killed scores of people during "interrogation". They don't need the charge to stick; they only want enough time with the accused to exact their own revenge for the minor irritation caused by the accused.
Stupid hit job against the Indian Right once again by a left leaning foreign publication, devoid of any truth..Everyone who was sitting on a high horse, drawing a kick out of the persecution of Arnab Goswami and justifying the abuse of power by the newly turned liberal govt of Maharashtra, should pause for a moment today. Courts have held a mirror to you. It is time for some self-reflection!
To be fair, a lot of these problems such as mismanagement, biased policies, misuse of state power to trample freedom of speech etc is seen across Indian states, even where Modi's party BJP is not in power. For example, India's state with highest literacy rate introduced this just a few weeks ago: https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/kerala-governor-prom...
> What shocked was the speed of its intervention. Mr Goswami spent just a week in detention, and his case had hardly reached the lowest rung of courts, yet the country’s topmost judges ignored the court’s backlog of some 60,000 cases to schedule a bail hearing within a day of the anchor’s appeal. This is in a country where prisons hold twice as many inmates awaiting trial, some 330,000 people, as they do convicts.
This is a big problem. The Supreme Court has long ignored cases of higher importance (corruption of different kinds by the central government and the cronyism for corporates). It’s shameful that consecutive Chief Justices have harmed the country through simple delays and not hearing cases.
At this stage, the High Courts in the states have been doing a better job of upholding justice and freedom for citizens than the Supreme Court has done in the last decade.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 34.8 ms ] threadAnyway for anyone wondering who Arnab goswami is: he is one of the vilest people in the Indian media industry who loves to bully people and do media trials which have ruined many peoples lives like this(1)
(1) https://theprint.in/india/man-labelled-pervert-delhi-ka-dari...
https://web.archive.org/web/20201128053447/https://www.econo...
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It's a system which lets governments, and particularly the current government, target political opposition with impunity, instilling fear among other opponents and critics. If you don't have strong political backing or public prominence, you risk your freedom if you oppose the government.
"Obstructing a public servant in the discharge of public functions" -- that would have made sense, but attempt to murder? Of course, because it's a non-bailable offense, so the police will now beat the shit out of him in custody. In the past few years they have maimed and killed scores of people during "interrogation". They don't need the charge to stick; they only want enough time with the accused to exact their own revenge for the minor irritation caused by the accused.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/farmer-protest-hero-who-shut...
https://archive.vn/1NXKA
This is a big problem. The Supreme Court has long ignored cases of higher importance (corruption of different kinds by the central government and the cronyism for corporates). It’s shameful that consecutive Chief Justices have harmed the country through simple delays and not hearing cases.
At this stage, the High Courts in the states have been doing a better job of upholding justice and freedom for citizens than the Supreme Court has done in the last decade.