Indian opposition leader arrested, few under house arrest in Delhi, India

Process is the punishment in India. They can arrest you based on allegations, keep you in jail for months without even filing a charge sheet and no one is liable when a court finally acquits you after months or years of jail time.

In any functioning democracy, government should not be able to arrest members of their opposition parties or journalists just based on allegations.

If an alleged scam of 100 Crore rupees is really a reason of arrest then why Adani is not arrested yet with an alleged scam and money laundering of thousands of crore rupees?

140 Cases Filed Against different AAP MLAs and Members, 72 Disposed of, Just 1 Conviction So Far [1]

Another example where they arrested a journalist. The journalist stayed in jail for 28 months before a court granted him bail. [2]

[1] https://www.news18.com/news/india/140-cases-filed-against-aa...

[2] https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/846-days-timeline-of-s...

>> Nobody is a king including the pm. it is about the land of the law.

Its may also be called "Selective enforcement".

>> did someone file a case? can you share a reference if there is one?

I wonder if there is any policeman brave enough who will register a FIR against the PM. This is what happened with Rahul Gandhi asked questions in parliament about relations of PM Modi and Adani. Isn't opposition's job to ask questions and Government's job to provide answers in a democracy?:

>> Rahul's allegations against the PM regarding industrialist Gautam Adani were expunged from the Lok Sabha records on Tuesday. As the House assembled, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi urged the Speaker to look into the privilege notice. "Rahul Gandhi's baseless remarks should be expunged and action should be taken against him," he said. [1]

This is another sad story of a police officer who "took on Modi". A police officer got suspended and now sentenced to life for an old case after he went against Modi:

>> The Gujarat government had originally appealed the court to drop charges against Bhatt and other policemen in the 1990 custodial death case. However, after Bhatt's affidavit against Modi, the Government withdrew its application, and the court initiated criminal proceedings against the policemen. [2]

[1] https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/remarks-on-pm-modi-...

[2] http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-man-who-took-on-mo...

Case was filed under section 153A/153B(1)/500/504/505(1)(b) and 505(2). [1]

Look at the meaning of each section below and you can see how they can add all random sections into the police report to arrest you.

- 153A Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony. [2]

- 153B(1) Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration. [2]

- 500 Punishment for defamation [2]

- 504 Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace. [2]

- 505(1)(b) and 505(2) Statements conducing to public mischief. [2]

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

[2] https://indiankanoon.org/

IPC 499 specifically excludes this:

> Second Exception.—Public conduct of public servants.—It is not defamation to express in a good faith any opinion whatever re­specting the conduct of a public servant in the discharge of his public functions, or respecting his character, so far as his character appears in that conduct, and no further.

You can't criminalise politicians calling each other names and still claim to be a democracy.

They are demanding full statehood instead of union territory (not a nation): https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/lada...

Yes, history has shown that it can go that way. We all have to stay alert and raise an alarm when a democratically elected government starts trying to manipulate four pillars of Democracy: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Press.

Then correct the title. He is not an opposition leader, he is the sitting Excise minister in the Delhi State Government.

Opposition leader means that a leader who sits in the opposition. Sisodia is part of Delhi state government so he can't be an opposition leader in Delhi state assembly. He also can't be an opposition leader in the Centre since he is not a parliamentarian.

First, he is not the "Indian opposition leader", he belongs to a regional party where in he is part of the opposing political party. India, currently does not have an opposition leader by definition. The same opposition leader and other leaders of the regional AAP party has been involved into a lot of misgivings as well, which are not pointed out in your references, some of them proven, some not. Political hitjobs by the ruling party? Maybe. Impeding investigation or attempt to gain mass public support by making last minute highly publicized visits or statements? Maybe.

There is a strong bias in your previous posts and your submissions against the ruling party in India, which has been time and again questioned/ pointed out in your previous submissions. Not that there is anything wrong about it, but again HN may not be the place for political and potentially controversial discussions which can devolve into a flame war.

edit : fixed verbiage.