Month: September 2020

Danish Alias Krishnan (30) who hails from Coimbatore, and is also a suspected Maoist was arrested while he was coming out of the jail in Thrissur after obtaining bail in 11 UAPA cases against him. Danish had been in the Kerala jail since his arrest from Palakkad district in October 2018, and had been getting bail in one case after another. He could have finally emerged out of the high-security prison after meeting the conditions in the latest bail order, which was issued by a district court in November 2019. The Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of Kerala Police arrested Danish again under UAPA allegedly in a 2019 case which states he allegedly spread Maoist pamphlets in a tribal colony in Kozhikode. The ATS said, “Danish has raised the slogan ‘Maoist Zindabad’ which is an evidence to s...

A Delhi Assembly panel has issued a notice to Facebook India vice president and managing director Ajit Mohan asking him to appear before it on September 15 in connection with complaints about the social media platform’s alleged deliberate and intentional inaction to contain hateful content in the country. “Summon was issued on the basis of scathing depositions of the key witnesses as well as incriminating material submitted by them on record,” an official statement stated on Saturday. The summon by the Delhi Assembly panel on peace and harmony follows a recent Wall Street Journal report which claimed that one of Facebook’s senior India policy executives intervened in internal communication to stop a permanent ban on a Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from Telangana after he allegedly...

The special court of NIA in Kochi granted bail to two students, who were arrested for alleged Maoist links in November last year and were facing charges under UAPA. Allan Shuhaib, 20, a law student , and Thwaha Fazal, 24, a journalism student, were arrested in Kozhikode by local police and charged under Sections 38 and 39 of UAPA and Section 120B of IPC. The second accused was also charged under Section 13 of UAPA. Later, the case was handed to the NIA. While releasing Allan and Twaha, the special Judge Anil K Bhaskar said, “there is no allegation by the prosecution that the accused conspired to do any specific terrorist act. “It appears to me that even though the prosecution was able to establish the first postulate of section 38 and 39 of UAPA that the accused had associated wi...