Liberty Calling

Economic liberty, not government dependency, is the path to prosperity.

[Liberty Calling @murrazog]

#CJP #JantarMantar #NEET #NarendraModi

Respect for this young man!

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[We Dravidians @WeDravidians]

Gujarat Model

[newslaundry @newslaundry]

From hospitals to schools to yoga centres, ONGC funnelled Rs 668 crore into 20 RSS-linked organisations through its CSR budget.

@Sachi_HN, @Jahnavi_R, @anotherayush, & @NeelMadhav___ report.

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[The Hindu @the_hindu]

A recent NITI Aayog report said some 94,000 government schools were closed over the past decade, an average of 25 a day, contributing to a 2.26 crore decline in government school enrolment. The government schools’ share of total enrolment has fallen from 71% in 2005 to 49.24% in 2024-25.

✍️ G. Ramakrishnan

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[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

The Union Government of India used its entire ecosystem including police, media and social media followers to get 4 kids to post apology videos. A very impressive achievement.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

SANJAY HEGDE SAYS POLICE ADDED TEN YEARS TO PUT A CHILD IN LOCKUP 🚨

ANCHOR: How does a 15-year-old girl become 25 in a police FIR?

HEGDE ⚠️: Police know a juvenile cannot be placed in an adult lockup. Adding ten years to her age created a route to take her into custody.

PREETI: Could this have been a mistake?

SANJAY 🔨: This was no mistake. It was a deliberate attempt to get cute with juvenile law. The police station and officers responsible need an inquiry.

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

"An entrenched culture of dissent in India is hard to stamp down. But if there is criticism these days, there is every chance that the mighty will take umbrage enough to denounce it, or even retaliate with vicious abuse of power," @meeganguly ✍️in this 2019 column.

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[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The doxing of young women who protested at Jantar Mantar is a crime under existing law. The FIRs have been aimed at a schoolgirl instead.

August 1, 2026

Following the Jantar Mantar protest against paper leaks from 20 June to 25 July 2026, over the past week an online campaign to shame and doxx young women who were part of this protest has commenced. We condemn this online doxing and shaming campaign unequivocally.

Scroll's report dated 1 August records that Shradha Singh, a 23-year-old yoga instructor who attended the protest in support of the students, posted a seven-second reel gently mocking the colour-coding of the Rapid Action Force. Meme pages recaptioned it as abuse of the armed forces which it was not. Some online users then located her car's number plate in an older photograph and converted it into her mobile number and home address. The calls that followed promised to rape and kill her. Her mother's and friends' accounts were tracked down and pressured for her whereabouts. She has stopped leaving her house. In the same period, Instagram removed 33 of her posts documenting the protest and offered her no avenue of appeal.

The second case concerns a minor, and who used coarse language including cuss words on the Prime Minister. We do not name her, or any other child as this is prohibited by Section 23 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. Here pictures and personal details have been posted online and a coordinated doxing campaign was launched to identify her. Many of the cases lodged against her include purported offences which are completely inapplicable to the facts and the only proper recourse under law may be a case for defamation instituted by the Prime Minister themself.

Beyond moral and social justifications, defence offered for all of this that these videos were public and the criticism of a protester is also expression. The defence fails at every step, and it fails on authority. Coarse sloganeering at a protest sits well within the tradition of political expression and this has often even included the use of cuss words. There should be no FIRs, and no jail, for a meme, a reel or criticism of those who govern. In a democracy, every voice has the right to speak its mind, and neither the speaker's youth nor the coarseness of her words diminishes that right. A government confident of its mandate answers mockery with argument or with silence, not with the police.

Now juxtapose this what the online mob has done. Compiling or hunting a woman's address, telephone number and family tree, and publishing the file beside a threat, expresses no opinion and contributes nothing to any debate but is the construction of a target, and the threats that follow it are its purpose. This is the very definition of stalking under Section 78 of the BNS and in an order dated 28 February 2024, the Delhi High Court, dealing with a woman doxed over a tweet about a politician, held that victims of doxing cannot be left without remedy in tort and privacy law, and observed that doxing differs from other forms of online harassment because "the risk of putting the subject in physical danger increases exponentially". It would be dishonest not to discuss our present without looking at the precedent of the Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai apps, which we placed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT in January 2022 that demonstrates a pattern where risk and threat for any online expression by a woman rise when they comment on social and political issues, specially when they challenge the state. Here, the objective is clear to shame and punish one so severaly that every other woman will watch, and withdraw.

In addition to this statement, IFF will be writing to the National Commission of Women and the National Commission for Child Rights to take cognisance of this issue and to commence immediate remedial action.

[Gurmehar Kaur @mehartweets]

@RatanRanjan_ If the women in this video are watching this and need legal help and protection- please reach out to us at the CKG Helpline: [phone]

[JΛYΣƧΉ  @baldwhiner]

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[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

India guarantees the right to protest. But terms and conditions apply.

You must first ask for police permission. If permission is refused, your constitutional right becomes an “unauthorised” act.

You still have the right -- but its exercise is by appointment only.

Link to my piece in replies:

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

I might as well post this again. Things are just becoming worse.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Sir, If you really want set an example, then please start unfollowing the abusers you've been following since 2014.
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[newslaundry @newslaundry]

Officers at Delhi's Parliament Street police station gave three different explanations for how a seized truck loaded with stones ended up near the CJP protest site, each account contradicting the other on when and why it was moved.

@ImAvdheshkumar reports.

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[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Today is Surendra #Gadling 's birthday. He is in jail for the past 8 years. He is a very good lawyer and law students in Nagpur would go to hear him argue. The police did not like his advocacy and implicated him in the catch all #BhimaKoregaon case. It is precisely because lawyers like him have languished inside, that policemen have been emboldened to misbehave with other lawyers. Here's hoping that his pending appeal in the Supreme Court is heard speedily and he is free at last.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

The misuse of criminal machinery against Ruchika Singh is unacceptable. Profanity does not attract criminal case. 50% of Lok Sabha MPs have criminal cases against them, close to 100 MPs in the BJP. The Police can focus their energy towards them, not a 25-year old! Harassment of the young must STOP immediately!

[newslaundry @newslaundry]

One DCP authorised pellet guns, another approved firearms during on July 20's march.

A document shows DCP Sachin Sharma, signed a paper allowing the RAF to use tear gas, lathi charge and firearms.

Prateek Goyal and Basant Kumar report.

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[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

The Indian Express Exclusives you should not miss

An Indian Express investigation into official records has found that an Income Tax Department probe uncovered 1.54 lakh J&K Bank accounts opened without PAN linkage between 2021 and 2024. Deposits in these accounts, with transactions of Rs 15 lakh or more in a financial year, totalled Rs 4.88 lakh crore, prompting the tax department to flag a "systemic failure" and a "significant red flag".
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[Bloomberg @business]

India’s central bank sold about $7 billion to defend the rupee on Friday, in what was one of its largest direct interventions in months https://t.co/6pE1mFuLyB

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

Days after the CJP called off its agitation at Jantar Mantar, protesters continued to be summoned by the Delhi Police until Thursday (July 30) afternoon to explain their presence at the protest site, according to Rishav Ranjan, a member of the Congress party’s legal cell who has been involved in providing legal aid.
“Many girls are getting calls from right-wing influencers asking why they joined the protest. Their names are part of a list, which is being circulated by these handles. They are being harassed and threatened. There is clear evidence online. This needs serious action by the State,” he said, adding that the Supreme Court will be informed about such incidents.

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