The police in Bihar have issued an order saying those participating in violent protests and demonstrations will find it difficult to get government jobs or passports or government grants. Participation in protests would affect police verification for nine services. They include passport, character certificate, contractual jobs in government, work contracts in government departments, boards and commissions, license for petrol pump and gas agency, passports, government grant, bank loans. According to the directive the “criminal act” of participating in a “law and order situation” would result in mention of it in their character certificate. The directive said, “If a person is involved in any criminal act by engaging in any law and order situation, protests, road jams etc.buy elavil onl...

On Wednesday, a court in Delhi said that the police had used “more force than necessary” in some instances while handling protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in 2019. However, the court said the alleged excesses committed by the police in trying to control the situation were related to their duties and dismissed the university’s petition seeking investigation into the same. “Though it could be argued that while so acting, the police/respondents had allegedly exceeded their jurisdiction and used more force than necessary in some instances, it cannot be said, by any stretch of imagination, that the said acts were wholly unconnected to their official duty,” Metropolitan Magistrate Rajat Goyal said in an order. The magistrate said, the po...