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Telangana’s recent ban on 16 organisations by invoking the Telangana Public Security Act is a smokescreen
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Telangana’s recent ban on 16 organisations by invoking the Telangana Public Security Act is a smokescreen
The Government of Telangana, on March 30, 2021, issued a notification (G.O. Ms.73) banning 16 organisations under the Telangana Public Security Act, 1992 (TPSA), declaring them as ‘unlawful associations’ and ‘new front organisations of the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist)’, which was made public three weeks later on April 24, 2021. The belated public announcement was made at a time when citizens organisations and collectives in the State and country were trapped in the coils of the pandemic and largely left by an abdicating state to fend for themselves in life and death.
Sedition in India: Colonial Legacy, Misuse and Effect on Free Speech
Since its inception, Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, which punishes sedition, has been a tool in the hands of the state to curb criticism and dissent. It has been used by the colonial British government as well as by successive governments of independent India against political dissidents.
Six senior journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Anant Nath, Paresh Nath, Zafar Agha, and Vinod Jose and Shashi Tharoor, member of Parliament from the Congress, had been booked for “posting tweets and deliberately circulating fake news” about the death of a farmer during the farmers protests in Delhi on 26 January 2021.
In recent times, we have witnessed an exponential increase in incidence of police atrocities all over the country. Catapulted by the June 2020 case of brutal custodial torture and killings of Jayaraj and Bennix in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, this article examines the issue through human rights and legal perspectives. It discusses the gaps in the law and its implementation, and examines ways of addressing the same.
The shocking and brutal custodial torture and killings of Jeyaraj and Bennix the father and son by the police of Santhankulam police station in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu in June 2020 have, once again, catapulted the discourse on the impunity with which the police force functions across India. While many incidents of police brutality take place regularly, and often in public spaces, few of them get highlighted in the media or witness public outrage in the same manner. Then too, once the initial phase of public outrage tides over assuaged through enquiries, arrests and investig