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Gurmukh Singh, Arrested for Republic Day Violence, Alleges False Charges , Assault by Police
Eighty-year-old Singh said that on January 26, he along with many others were at the Burari ground, carried out a âKhalsa paradeâ there itself and did not go to the Red Fort.
Eighty-year-old Gurmukh Singh. Photo: Pawanjot Kaur/The Wire
Rights16/Feb/2021
Khamanon (Punjab): On Sunday morning, 80-year-old Gurmukh Singh reached his village in Punjab after spending at least 15 days in the Tihar Jail in New Delhi along with a dozen or so farmers.Â
While a majority of the farmers and farm law protesters arrested in relation to the mayhem that occurred at the Red Fort, ITO and some others parts of Delhi were picked up on January 26, Gurmukh Singh was one of those rounded up by the Delhi Police on January 28 from the Burari ground â a site which was offered as a designated protest area to the farmers in November last year.
Martyrdom, the Farmers Movement and the Making of Another Polis
The protest at Delhi s borders has enacted Gandhiâs conception of non-violence, crafting an alternative conception of sovereignty, another polis grounded in martyrdom.
Farmers on their tractors move towards Delhi during their rally on Republic Day, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Tuesday, January 26, 2021. Photo: PTI/Shahbaz Khan
Rights07/Feb/2021
Martyrâs Day is celebrated on January 30 by commemorations that are statist and non-statist. Everyone has been claiming their favourite Gandhi depending on their preferred values,
swacch (clean) or
satya (truth). There has been an overkill of write-ups on Gandhi in the 150th year of his birth centenary even as his detractors zero in on his so-called racism and sexism. Gandhiâs radicalism has been domesticated, made to conform to state goals.
Press Freedom: As FIRs Fly In From all Corners, the Supreme Court Must Intervene
The law is meant to provide justice and not harass citizens, and if it does so, it must be struck down or read down to a more pragmatic interpretation, as was done with cheque bouncing matters.
Supreme Court of India. Photo: The Wire
Rights06/Feb/2021
The rampant misuse (if not abuse) of the Indian criminal justice system certainly calls for an interventionist approach from our Supreme Court (SC). A hands-off approach is no good and, in fact, seems to be encouraging those who want to take advantage of the law to inconvenience anyone who is perhaps an annoyance to them. I refer to the spate of First Information Reports (FIRs) filed by different people in different parts of the country so that the accused is harassed and made to run from one state to another and from one court to another.