The Supreme Court granted protection from coercive action to Advocate Ehtasham Hashmi and asked him to assist the High Court in the Tripura violence case.
The Tripura government's affidavit in the case seeking probe into violence and hate crimes that place in Tripura last October, is replete with whataboutery, advocate Prashant Bhushan told the Supreme Court on Monday.
The Tripura government has told the Supreme Court that the plea before the top court seeking intervention in hate crimes that allegedly took place in October in Tripura, was "selective".
Supreme Court has stayed all criminal proceedings against HW News Network and its journalists, Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarnja Jha who were booked by Tripura Police for their reports on recent communal violence in Tripura.