Gauri Lankesh, Dr Umar Khalid… For the state, Umar Khalid & others are worse than heinous criminals

NB: Judicial conscience requires human backbone DS

For the state, Umar Khalid and others are worse than heinous criminals

All those charged with the assassination of human rights activist and journalist GAURI LANKESH (29 January 1962 – 5 September 2017) are out on bail. Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur, Narsinghanand and many others who stoked violence against Muslims have never attracted any attention from the cops.

Pragya Thakur of the 2008 Malegaon Blasts infamy even got to be MP for five years.

Source: https://x.com/penpencildraw/status/1963074679830413768

But human rights defenders Dr Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Athar Khan, Khalid Saifi, Mohammad Saleem Khan, Shifa ur Rehman, Meeran Haider, Gulfisha Fatima and Shadab Ahmed have been languishing in jail for years.

“Bail is the rule, jail the exception”: that has(d) been the Supreme Court of India’s dictum reiterated by former Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud when he granted bail to Arnab Goswami. It is evident this norm is very selectively applied. Are we to conclude that Muslims are now — as apparently endorsed by the higher judiciary — 2nd class citizens?

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