India•mint - news•Mar 23
Supreme Court judge flags misuse of UAPA, calls for tolerance of dissent | Today News
Supreme Court Judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has asserted that the goal of a Viksit Bharat by 2047 cannot be achieved through criminalisation of dissent, mindless arrests under the anti-terror law UAPA and "deep social fault lines". Speaking at the first national conference of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) in Bengaluru on Sunday, Justice Bhuyan also lamented the poor representation of women in the higher judiciary. "Low convictions under UAPA show overuse, if not misuse, of the law," he said.
4 min