Pan African Press

For the past year, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has intensified its campaign against ‘Bangladeshi infiltration’ in Jharkhand and has repeated its intention to implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise to deal with the purported infiltrators.BY Md Asghar KhanRepealing section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) does not guarantee the decriminalisation of dissent as other similar provisions continue to exist in Indian penal law. The special statutes like Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Section 150 in the proposed Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita carry the essence...