New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave protection from the arrest to CPI members (ML), a human rights activist and a journalist, who challenged slapping the violation of the law (prevention) demanding law to post “Tripura Burned” and Wanted “The Restrictive Meaning of” Violating Law Activities “under the actions to curb misuse.
Tripura Police previously said that actions had been taken towards various social media handles to mislaim that mosques had been burned in the country when this did not occur.
Chairman of Justice and Ramana and Judges D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant issued a notification to the center and the government of Tripura on the Joint Petition submitted by three after hearing Prashant Bhushan.
The bench said two other people were accused under the guarantee and ordered it “temporarily that, there are no coercion steps, including p Enjection, will be taken against the applicant “.
Mukesh Kumar’s first applicant was an advocate registered with the Delhi Bar Council and was associated with the All-India Trade Center Union Council, the Indian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninis) and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties.
The second applicant was Ansarul Haq Ansari, who said he was a human rights activist from Rajasthan, and the third applicant was Shyam Meera Singh, a journalist with a NewClick web portal which often highlighted complaints of marginialized communities and minorities.
The applicant said their complaints against “political violence targeted at Muslim minorities in Tripura during the second half of October 2021, and the next effort by the state to monopolize the flow of information and facts originating from the affected regions by requesting the provisions of the UPA against civil society members, including Advocates and journalists who have tried to bring facts in connection with targeted violence in the public domain “.
UPA was enacted in 1967 to fight the threat of left-wing extremism to India and its sovereignty.
“If the state is permitted to criminalize the actions of the discovery and reporting facts, and it is also under the strict provisions of UPA where anticipatory guarantees are prohibited and the idea of ​​guarantee is likely, the only facts that will come in the public domain are comfortable for the country because ‘Cold effect’ on freedom of speech and the expression of members of civil society.
If the search for truth and reporting itself is criminalized, the victim in the process is the idea of ​​justice, “they said.
Violence erupted in the state after Durga Pandal Pandal allegedly targeted in Bangladesh.