How can appeals against a report of an SIT established by any court be an “abuse of process?” Will SIT reports henceforth be outside the purview of judicial appeal?
"It is ironic that Mohammed Zubair's arrest came on a day when India joined G7 and four other countries to protect free speech, online and offline," the Press Club of India said.
The apex court judgment on Zakia Jafri's plea has made the victims of the alleged state-sponsered violence lonely, threatening them against seeking the help of human rights workers.
The arrest comes less than a day after the Supreme Court held that there were no grounds to investigate Modi and that the petitioners had engaged in an "abuse of process" by pursuing this matter for so many years.