SC refuses to remain UAPA case by Tripura police in opposition to legal professionals, journalist

The Supreme Court of India has granted safety from arrest to three individuals booked by Tripura Police underneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) for allegedly attempting to incite communal violence within the state by spreading faux information. However, the apex court docket didn’t subject any keep order within the case, and refused to tag the matter with different earlier petitions difficult the vires of sure different provisions of UAPA, as sought by the petitioners.
Hearing the petition filed by Advocate Mukesh, member of People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Advocate Ansar Indori, Secretary, National Confederation of Human Rights Organisation and Newsclick journalist Shyam Meera Singh looking for quashing of the FIR in opposition to them and difficult the constitutionality of sure provisions of UAPA, the court docket additionally issued discover to the state and central governments. Along with that, the bench of Chief Justice of India N V Ramana, D Y Chandrachud and Surya Kant prevented the police from taking any coercive motion in opposition to the accused throughout this time.
While the court docket issued notices to the Tripura govt and central govt, the court docket didn’t specify any date by which the responses to the notices should be submitted. Moreover, regardless that the three petitioners have been granted safety from arrest, the court docket refused to intrude with the police investigation within the case.
The two Supreme Court legal professionals Mukesh and Ansar Indori had been a part of a gaggle of 4 legal professionals, who had been booked by Tripura Police underneath UAPA after that they had launched a so-called ‘fact-finding’ report titled “Humanity under Attack in Tripura #MuslimsLivesMatter”. The report claimed that there had been a large-scale assault on Muslims by Hindus throughout protests by Hindus in Tripura in opposition to the assault on minority Hindus throughout Durga Puja.
The so-called report had claimed that 12 masjids, 9 outlets and three properties belonging to Muslims had been attacked throughout the protests by Hindu teams, a declare fully denied by the police. The Tripura govt maintains that whereas some minor scuffles did happen throughout the protests, there was no assault on any mosque in Tripura, as being alleged by the legal professionals and others.
The different two legal professionals booked within the case had been Ehtesham Hashmi and Amit Srivastava, who’s the convenor of Lawyers for Democracy. The 4 legal professionals had visited as a self-declared fact-finding staff and had printed the report after that.
On the opposite hand, journalist Shyam Meera Singh had claimed that he was booked by the police for alleging on Twitter that Tripura is burning because of the protests in opposition to assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh.
The journalist and the 2 legal professionals had filed a peal with the Supreme Court to quash the case in opposition to them filed by Tripura police and had challenged sure provisions of the UAPA.