Utkarsh Agrawal

Engineer turned struggling Lawyer | AOR, Supreme Court of India | Tech Law and Policy | Secular, Liberal and Feminist | Lesser half to @DrManisha05

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

In new India, the only crime which happens on camera is considered crime. Rest is governance!

[Abhijat Srivastava @abhijatindia]

It’s not about caste or hatred. It’s about the feudal mindset and goon behaviour of the SP.

After locking a citizen inside a police van, how did he dare to go there and thrash him? Because he had armed men behind him? Because he wore a uniform and held power? What gave him the confidence that he could physically assault a citizen who was already in police custody?

There is a procedure for handling protests, protesters and citizens. Those procedures exist to protect citizens from the arbitrary use of State power. Because tomorrow, it could be anyone. They must understand the gravity and sensitivity of the case.

In the Indian system, injustice, indifference and harassment are routine. When a powerless citizen has no effective mechanism to compel the administration to listen, what option remains except protest and dharna? That is a legitimate democratic method of raising grievances.

What exactly angered the SP? That citizens dared to sit in front of the Collectorate? Is the Collectorate a king’s palace where ordinary citizens cannot sit in protest without hurting the ego of officers?

Why are these officers not equally “road friendly” when thousands of VIP movements block roads, stop traffic and force and insult ordinary citizens to wait for 15 to 30 minutes? Why does their concern for public inconvenience suddenly disappear when powerful people including them are responsible for it?

This is not about caste or religion, nor is it about selectively showing hatred. We protested in the Bharat Tiwari case, and we oppose this goon action too. The standard must remain the same regardless of the identity of the citizen or the officer.

Police cannot claim to be an ethical and accountable institution when, every time an aggrieved citizen raises his voice against police misconduct, the police immediately investigate themselves, issue themselves a clean chit and start listing allegations against the citizen: he did this, he provoked that, he violated this rule, he created that obstruction.

None of that answers the fundamental question: how did an officer thrash a citizen who was already locked inside a police van?

Is the SP a court? Is he the judge, jury and executioner? Does the uniform give him the authority to impose physical punishment?

If this principle is accepted, should citizens also start thrashing IAS and IPS officers found misusing public resources, indulging in corruption or allowing police chowkis to extract money from citizens?

Of course not. Because punishment cannot be administered through personal violence. That is precisely why the rule of law exists.

And the rule of law must bind the SP just as firmly as it binds the weakest citizen.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

Sabse pehle district courts me at least advocates ke liye ek AC hall banana chahiye. Baaki sab baad me.

[whinygunner @_law_ncelot]

Bar association building mein ek computer with internet aur ek first aid box ka inauguration hua aaj. Bas itna bolna tha.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

@mumbaiker07 Need a waiting for matter to reach council. It'd have the widest membership base.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

@sone_do_mujhe V5 is the undisputed leader. So much satisfaction when you are able to empty its tank before losing it.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

which is keeping the delicate fabric of justice delivery intact for all others to have some semblance of hope with it. You don't have to go to the hinterlands to observe this helplessness, any district in NCR will have thousands of examples.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

I believe SC was right in its approach to be magnanimous and forgiving about the contemptuous incident. Those who are scared about its trickle down effect, forget that the judges below are already more high-handed in their way of running courts than SC judges could ever be.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

The miscreant was not an exception, he was the only person who could reach such a platform to perform his antics. Lakhs, if not crores, frustrated with bureaucratic and judicial high-handedness have given up the idea of any grievance redressal and it is this capitulation,

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

No wonder, SLP was against the Allahabad High Court order!

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

Justice Vishwanathan is one the coolest judges in the apex court today. Cool in calibre and also temperament. See how calmly he reacts to an irate litigant!

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

@whattalawyer Congratulations and best wishes 💐

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

Too many words for saying "BJP Good, Mamta Bad". But yes, one must agree that electoral symbols can't be owned as intellectual property. In fact, in this article, I've argued for abolition of electoral symbols altogether.

Symbols or Democracy? Choose One!
https://t.co/j4cPfDDnJJ

[Jai Anant Dehadrai @jai_a_dehadrai]

Mamata Banerjee needs to understand that neither she nor her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, “own” the TMC.

In a constitutional democracy such as India, no political party, or, by extension, its election symbol, belongs to any individual.

Democracy is, by its very nature, the antithesis of a family enterprise.

A political party is not the personal property of its founder, nor can its election symbol be treated as a private asset. The symbol is merely the electoral mark of a political party, whose legitimacy ultimately flows from the confidence reposed in it by the electorate.

By the same logic, even the founder of a political party cannot claim to be its perpetual owner or shareholder.

The moment an individual asserts proprietary rights over a political party, it betrays an exaggerated sense of entitlement inconsistent with democratic values.

Political parties are institutions of representative democracy, they are not hereditary estates!

The Indian electorate has, time and again, demonstrated its growing impatience with dynastic politics. It increasingly rewards merit, performance and credible leadership over lineage.

The prolonged decline of the Congress Party is, in no small measure, attributable to precisely this culture of entitlement that has come to define its leadership.

If the members of a political party lose confidence in their leader, they are fully entitled to elect another from amongst themselves.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

A good case for abolition of Tenth Schedule! Let the electorate openly see the brokering of its mandate for money/greed and decide accordingly.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[AajTak @aajtak]

जिस केस के नोटिस पर मीनाक्षी नटराजन का नामांकन रद्द हुआ, वही याचिका कोर्ट ने लौटाई

राज्यसभा चुनाव में मीनाक्षी नटराजन का नामांकन रद्द होने के मामले में नया ट्विस्ट आ गया है. जिस तेलंगाना शिकायत का हवाला देकर उनका पर्चा खारिज किया गया था, उसी मामले की याचिका को अब स्थानीय अदालत ने सुनवाई के लिए स्वीकार करने से इनकार कर दिया है.

खबर https://t.co/FcZ02wNGI4

#MeenakshiNatarajan #RajyaSabhaElection #Nomination

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

@DrAMSinghvi @VTankha @ECISVEEP Singhvi: I will show something shocking. turn to section 33A of the representation of peoples act. I will show something that will turn the conscious of this court

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

@DT_90t1 @LegalCowboy @sone_do_mujhe These kind of cases are generally pro-bono.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

Being an election law consultant in a few general elections, I have always advised clients/candidates to err on the side of caution. For too long, political niceties ensured that every such omission is ignored. No more it seems!
@MNatarajanINC case is just the beginning.

[arun giri @arungiri]

What is happening to Ms. Meenakshi Natrajan in MP will happen to other Opposition politicians soon.... to say this is shocking, is an understatement

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

Great work @rishav_ranjan18 👏🏽

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: Advocate, Counsel for petitioner NSUI Rishav Ranjan says, "Our first demand is that the re evaluation portal should be open for a month. The second demand is that the students whose answer sheets are either blur, incorrectly evaluated or missing, should be given compensatory marks... The third demand is manual rechecking should be directed wherever necessary. The fourth demand is that we are asking for an independent inquiry into the large scale irregularities... We have also asked for the High Court to make guidelines for future evaluations so that the OSM can be re evaluated or verified easily. The registrar of Delhi High Court has given us a permission for 8 June. Our matter will be listed on 8th June and our pleas will be heard then. We have two respondents in our petition. One is the department of education, union of India and the second one is the CBSE..."

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

@lawandnation @ShivrattanDhil1 Sir, aap to gatekeep mat karo. Followers ka kuch bhala kar do 😂

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

The Court observed that the evidence was largely documentary and that our defence of acting in an official capacity is a matter to be tested during the trial. This is a crucial for banking professionals discharging routine duties and roped into FIRs by IOs.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

Our team at @VersatilisP recently secured regular bail for our client before the Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi, in a complex cyber fraud investigation. I represented the applicant, alongside co-counsel Santosh Goswami.

[Utkarsh Agrawal @utkarshkumar_]

The Court delivered a reasoned order, noting that while economic offences have deep ramifications, the seriousness of allegations alone cannot be the ground to deny bail. The Court reinforced the need to balance societal interest with the fundamental right to personal liberty.