72 Ex-bureaucrats Ask Ag To Check Witch Hunt Of People Exercising Right To Free Speech
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72 former civil servants have written to Attorney General KK Venugopal. In this, he has asked to investigate the people exercising the right to freedom. In this, he said that you should advise the government to issue instructions to the police officers to stop any kind of witch hunt against the citizens who are exercising their right to freedom of speech and ensure that no baseless case in future. not be entered. In this letter, former bureaucrats highlighted the continuing violation of personal civil liberties of Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair.
The former bureaucrats said that it is very disturbing to see the apparently discriminatory treatment between Nupur Sharma and Mohammad Zubair as supporters of the constitutional principle of equality before the law. The former bureaucrats wrote this letter on July 15. It was made public on Saturday.
In the letter, he wrote that we appeal to you to advise the government to issue instructions to the police officers to prevent and ensure that any kind of witch hunt against citizens who exercise their right to freedom of speech. That no baseless case should be registered in future. Along with this, the government advocates should be directed not to regularly oppose the applications for bail.
A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to Zubair in a case related to his alleged objectionable tweets on a Hindu deity in 2018. In this tweet, he had said that ‘Voice of dissent is essential for a healthy democracy’. However, Zubair will have to remain in jail for now as he has been sent to judicial custody by the Uttar Pradesh Police for hurting religious sentiments.
The signatories of the letter include former Home Secretary GK Pillai, former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah and former Health Secretary K Sujatha Rao. The letter also referred to the Supreme Court. In which the top court has said in a recent judgment that indiscriminate arrest and jailing of people is making India a police state.
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