@JioCare@JioCare is a perfect case of how despite multiple options, there is no way to ensure human intervention when needed. The support email leads to dead links. Automated help services have no resolution. The brand takes money through MyJio app & fails to provide services. Alarming.
Today, I appeared for Ariful Islam, a lawyer who was merely a bystander near the site of a protest in Guwahati.
He was in his advocate's uniform, showed the police his Bar ID card, and was carrying copies of the BNS and BNSS - So much Suraksha for a Nagarik!
Yet he was detained for over 24 hours at a police station and booked under Section 152 of the BNS for allegedly "endangering the sovereignty, unity, and integrity of India."
This comes even as the Government has agreed to withdraw cases against peaceful protesters across the country.
Ariful has now been remanded to judicial custody until 7 August.
The police can cross all limits of arbitrariness - violate every protection guaranteed under the Constitution - and we can hardly do anything!
An Outlook India reporter was among those injured during the police crackdown, with medical records documenting pellet wounds even as Delhi Police deny using the weapon.
https://t.co/QTVNJismPe
Irshad said, “Multiple pellets hit me. First I smelled something rancid. Then something stung my right eyebrow. Pellets pierced through my right eye and down on my cheek and nose…I put my fingers on my face and blood was gushing out from everywhere”.
I report @IndianExpress
From Haryana to Tripura, BJP leaders are nervous about what happened in Delhi on Monday.
“Our own workers are siding with the protesters,” one Yuva Morcha activist told me.
“Why did the police beat them up?” asked another.
READ: https://t.co/VLYqBRtlBU
Are journalists being heckled, roughed up? Question your managing editors and editor-in-chiefs, why its happening? Is it because of the logo on the mic that you're carrying? Students are questioning the government, bearing police lathis, tear gas shells, broken bones, the least you can do is question your editors and proprietors.
Read the story. It mentions that Delhi Police has denied using pellets. Pellet guns and shock-batons are part of RAF gear, which was working alongside Delhi Police and deployed in and around Jantar Mantar on July 20. RAF is a part of CRPF. The central armed police forces are deployed on the request of the State police, in this case- Delhi Police.
Breaking: Justice Atul Sreedharan of Allahabad High Court Rules that 'rushing to demolish the dwelling place of a person accused of an offence under the garb of the same being violative of municipal laws, is impermissible the same being a retributive exercise of executive discretion and so, no action may be taken to demolish his house for a period of two years from the date of registration of the FIR
Facebook page The Bengal Owl shared a fake Form 10 to FALSELY claim that Baruipur rape-murder accused Ananda Sardar was CPI(M)'s polling agent.
@AnindyaHazra96 pieced together official records, spoke to key sources & tracked down the actual polling agent. https://t.co/36aWG0sczf
Investigation: Banned in Europe, Scanning Faces in India
Cant sell it in the EU. But Spanish firm Herta's facial recognition software is being used to scan millions of citizens across railway stations, temples and more. With @investigate_eu@_infoLibre
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Ankit Sharma was not the only one murdered and thrown into a drain during the Delhi riots. Five other men — all Muslim — suffered the same fate.
Their stories hardly got attention. But here's one. Reported this over 3 weeks with @Basantrajsonu in 2020.
https://t.co/N9PYnBX9MC
The Calcutta High Court declined to grant relief to a man whose #passport application was kept on hold after his name was deleted from the electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), holding that the question of his #citizenship would have to be decided first.
“At the present rate, the #SIR tribunal will take 21 years to dispose of all appeals, we have calculated," the bench remarked.
#CalcuttaHighCourt
Read: https://t.co/zMqhnoHEsi
29.64% of names - 1.26 lakh of 4.28 lakh -- find no place in the draft rolls in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu published on Friday
https://t.co/cIZtV4z4df
I got this message from a friend who is 59, born in Delhi and who has voted several times but not in 2024 because her name got removed. Surely the @ECISVEEP and its system have a solution to situations like hers:
“So as a single person with dead parents (whose voter IDs are unavailable) I cannot be registered! I have to have either parents or spouse or some other legal guardian who has an EPIC number that can be put on the form. Otherwise there is no way forward…
“I have a voter ID but before the last election someone went to verify and not finding me living there Just deleted me from the rolls. Now to get back on I have to have the above.”
#SIR
A year into the SIR, we still don't know who took the decision to do this exercise and why. An RTI response from the ECI told us that this decision was not taken in the ECI. Which begs the question: Where was it taken? Was it taken in BJP HQ? Or somewhere else? Now, a year down, crores of citizens have been disenfranchised because a secret algorithm decided they were not eligible to vote: @AnjaliB_ at the Conclave on Federalism & Citizenship. [Social activist Anjali Bhardwaj is an influential voice in transparency and accountability.]
Instagram is providing market place to run ads for child sexu*l exploitation videos, r*pe videos and other sexuaIIy expIicit content. A BBC documentary scrubs through the murky aisles of social media platforms.
Must watch: The Instagram Scandal
https://t.co/raAa7UBllf