Indian police often use illegal detentions to stifle dissent. Could a Delhi HC order change that?
Vineet Bhalla | 18 July 2023 | Scroll.in
On Monday, at the High Court’s direction, a student activist put under unlawful preventive detention lodged a complaint against the Delhi Police.
Abhigyan and his friend whilst under unauthorised preventive detention on June 30 | Manik Gupta
On the morning of June 30, officials from the Model Town Police Station in Delhi raided a private house. Their target: Abhigyan, a student of Delhi University and the city president of the left-wing All India Students’ Association. The house in which he was staying belonged to a friend. The police detained Abhigyan (who uses only one name) in the flat from 9 am till 2 pm, not allowing him to meet any visitors.
Abhigyan was told that he had been detained because Prime Minister Narendra Modi was attending a ceremony to celebrate Delhi University’s centenary that day. Abhigyan was not allowed to leave the house even though he insisted that he had not planned to participate in any protests against Modi’s attendance.