Given Electric Shocks, Tortured To Implicate Political Leaders: Parliament Security Breach Accused Tell Delhi Court
A Delhi Court has been informed that the accused persons arrested in the UAPA case registered over the security breach in Parliament in December last year, were tortured, forced to sign various blank papers and were given electric shocks to confess the alleged crime and their association with political parties.
The Vice-President Was a Jat During the Farmers' and Wrestlers' Protests Too...
...and yet he had remained silent then. His invocation of the community is restricted to only instances that conveniently suit the ruling party, writes Akhil Chaudhary.
Pangs of Unemployment: Why India's Youth is Turning to Bhagat Singh
While the four have been booked under UAPA, this incident is the most powerful attempt to bring the issue of rising unemployment to national attention.
Jagdeep Dhankar is importing his Bengal politics to counter Opposition MP suspensions
The BJP wants the row over an alleged insult to the vice president to overshadow the fact that nearly the entire Opposition has been ejected from Parliament.
To Save Our Democracy, Anger With State Policy Must Be Tied to the Electoral Process
While politics is more than electoral politics and must include every means by which the residents of a country engage with their government, the mainstreaming of on-ground protest and the sidelining of the electoral process speaks to a loss of institutional credibility that goes beyond a single government, writes Sarayu Pani.
Shashi Tharoor, Supriya Sule, Farooq Abdullah among 49 Opposition MPs suspended from Lok Sabha
Earlier on Monday 78 MPs were suspended from both Houses of Parliament. With this the total number of suspended MPs in this session are 141, a figure unprecedented in the history of the Indian Parliament.
45 MPs from Rajya Sabha, 33 more from Lok Sabha suspended today
The 33 Lok Sabha MPs were suspended days after 14 others were handed the same penalty for disrupting the Winter Session by demanding a statement on the Parliament security breach.
Parliament security breach: Raising voice against unemployment is not treason, says ‘mastermind’ Lalit Jha’s father
Villagers praised Lalit Jha, who is allegedly the mastermind behind the Parliament security breach, claiming that he followed Bhagat Singh’s life, but never appeared to be a terrorist.