Life And Liberty

A Division Bench last week while criticising two Supreme Court judgments for diluting the UAPA precedent in K.A. Najeeb, implicitly doubted why inadmissible evidence like uncorroborated disclosure statements were being treated as ‘prima facie’ proof to deny bail. Is this a new dimension in UAPA’s bail problem?

In its over 140 page judgment, summarised here, the Court distinguished two sets of reliefs based on the alleged roles assigned to each of the seven individuals in the 2020 Delhi riots.

India’s refusal to accept individual complaints under the ICCPR leaves political prisoners without international recourse, unless civil society chooses to act.

As petitioners gear up for rejoinder arguments, we bring to you the complete rundown of the arguments advanced by the Delhi Police to oppose the grant of bail to the Petitioners.

On the midnight of September 8, 2014, I waited on the pavement outside Justice H.L. Dattu’s residence, as the jailers in Meerut Jail made preparations for Surendra Koli’s hanging. It was a race against time, a struggle against an irreversible miscarriage of justice.

In practical terms, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mihir Rajesh Shah (2025) may slow down the mechanical pace of arrest - but that is the price of constitutionalism.

The acquittal brings to fore the immense significance of the Supreme Court-innovated extraordinary jurisdiction of curative, specifically in cases concerning life and liberty and death penalty.

The Delhi Police, in its affidavit opposing the bail pleas, described the February 2020 violence as a “deep-rooted, premeditated and orchestrated conspiracy.”