Video: The Needle of Doubt is Now on All Matters, says Mihir Desai / India’s democracy in decline
Video: Not Just Bhima Koregaon, the Needle of Doubt is Now on All Matters, says Mihir Desai
12/02/2021
hindi | 23:12min | 2021
Newsclick / Bhasha Singh in conversation with Mihir Desai
In a special offering by Newsclick, senior journalist Bhasha Singh spoke to Mihir Desai, a senior advocate at the Bombay High Court about the new revelation by The Washington Post in the Bhima Koregaon case which has revealed that offensive material was planted through a software on arrested political activist Rona Wilson’s laptop. The disclosure is important because it almost makes it clear that electronic evidence was planted in the Bhima Koregaon case and there is a strong sense of fear that it may happen in other cases as well.
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India’s democracy in decline
12/02/2021
Washington Post / by Joanna Slater and Niha Masih
The future of the world’s largest democracy is looking increasingly less democratic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the most dominant Indian leader in five decades, while the country’s independent institutions have rarely appeared weaker…
One case in particular has become a litmus test for the rule of law and freedom of expression in India. Three years ago, police in a state controlled by Modi’s party began arresting activists under a stringent anti-terrorism law.
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