Founder of Stree Chetna, an NGO that works for women’s right and against dowry cases, Shoma Sen is a professor of English at the Nagpur University. Her Left-leaning activities have turned out to be a thorn in the side for the government and it has led to her arrest on fake charges.
Sections 153A, 501(1)(b), 117, 120B, 121, 121A, 124A & 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) read with Sections 13, 16, 17, 18, 18B, 20, 4 38, 39 & 40 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA).
The 71-year-old is an Indian scholar, writer, activist working in the field of civil rights, especially Dalit rights. He is a management professor at the Goa Institute of Management (GIM). Teltumbde was an executive at Bharat Petroleum and managing director of Petronet India Limited before becoming an academic. He was also a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur before he joined as a senior professor at the Goa Institute of Management (GIM). He has been critical of the Modi government, and now sees himself arrested on allegedly trumped up charges of having “Maoist links”.
Sections 153A (promote enmity between different groups on the basis of religion, caste, class), 505(1B) (publishes something to cause alarm in the minds of the public), Section 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), 120(B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 13 (Punishment for unlawful activities), 16 ( Punishment for terrorist act), 17 (Punishment for raising funds for terrorist act), 18 (Punishment for conspiracy), 18B (Punishment for recruiting of any person or persons for terrorist act), 20 (Punishment for being member of terrorist gang or organisation), 38 (Offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 40 (Offence of raising fund for a terrorist organisation) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
He is a Kerala based journalist who currently works with the news portal Azhimukham as a regular contributor. He also serves as the Secretary of Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ). He was picked up by the police when he was on his way to cover the Hathras case and is accused of being associated with an Islamic organisation Popular Front of India (PFI) and having a history of organising demonstrations against CAA.
Sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, etc), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of a class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code, section 17 (raising funds for terrorist act) of the UAPA, section under Information Technology Act for carrying “suspicious” literature
A student activist, Gulshifa Fatima was jailed for allegedly inciting violence during the February 2020 Delhi violence. She remains behind bars at Tihar jail. After she alleged harassment by jail authorities, a Delhi court directed jail authorities to change the staff if necessary.
Sections 147 (rioting), 186 (obstructing a public servant from doing his duty), 188 (disobedience to order), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant), 283 (danger or obstruction in a public way), 109 (abetment) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, UAPA
He is a comedian who spent over a month in jail for a joke he did not crack. Munawar Faruqui was arrested in the middle of his comedy show by the Indore Police on complaints by a Hindutva outfit Hind Rakshak Sanghathan for allegedly making indecent jokes about Hindu Gods. His arrest led to a social media uproar as the Indore Police accepted too, that no jokes about Hinduism were cracked. During his performance in Hyderabad in August, 2022, around 50 people were taken into preventive custody when they reached the venue of a show by the stand-up comedian. Among the people arrested were a number of Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) workers. Following this show, he was denied permission to hold shows in Bangaluru and Delhi. While the Bengaluru police said that that the show’s organisers did not obtain the necessary permissions to hold the show, Delhi police said that the possible impact of his shows on communal harmony in the area was why he was not allowed to hold the show.
Sections 295 A (deliberate, malicious intention of outraging religious feelings), 298 (deliberate intention to wound religious feelings), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection, in view of the pandemic), 188 (disobey orders promulgated by public servants) and 34 (acting together in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.
The journalist, activist and educationist is also the secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP). As a journalist Setalvad has written for multiple publications since 1983. Her coverage of the communal violence in Mumbai in 1992-93 set the tone for much of her work as an activist. In 1993, she co-founded the magazine Communalism Combat with her husband and fellow human rights defender Javed Anand. CJP was founded in 2002 in wake of the communal violence that broke out in Gujarat. CJP, through Teesta Setalvad was the second petitioner in the Zakia Jafri case that sought to pin accountability for failure to control the violence on authorities in the state at the time. Setalvad was detained from her Mumbai home by a unit of the Gujarat ATS on June 25, just a day after the Supreme Court dismissed the petition in the Zakia Jafri case. She was taken to Ahmedabad where she was remanded to police custody by a magistrate. After a long legal battle, Setalvad was finally granted interim bail by the Supreme Court, and released from Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Jail.
194 (Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence), 211 (False charge of offence made with intent to injure), 218 (Public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) read with 120 B (Criminal Conspiracy)
An activist and poet, Dr. Varavara Rao has been targeted by the State since the 1970s. He has been in the crosshairs of the Andhra Pradesh government, and was also hounded during the Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi. The octogenarian was most recently implicated in the Bhima-Koregaon case and has once again been incarcerated for months. He was repeatedly refused permanent bail on medical grounds despite his advanced age, a bout of Covid-19, and a progressive deterioration in his health. Finally, the Supreme Court granted him bail on medical grounds in August 2022, deleting the requirement for surrender put forward by the Bombay High Court when it had previously granted him temporary bail.
Section 124 A (Sedition) of the Indian Penal Code, sections 38 and 39 (support to a terrorist organisation) of UAPA
The independent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Vadgam constituency in Gujarat, was arrested by Assam Police in connection with two tweets containing allegedly offensive content against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Dalit rights activist-turned-politician was arrested with scant regard to procedures surrounding arrest of a sitting MLA, and taken to Assam the following day. After he got bail in the case he was re-arrested in connection with a case where he stands accused of assaulting a woman officer of the Assam Police.
Twitter case: IPC sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 153 A (promoting enmity between groups), 295 A (outraging and insulting religious beliefs), 504 (insult with intent to provoke) and 505 (public mischief). Assault case: IPC sections 294 (obscene acts and songs), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging duty) and 354 (outraging the modesty of a woman).
Khalid Saifi is a member of United Against Hate. He was implicated in the February 2020 Delhi violence case after being accused of dropping Delhi violence accused Tahir Hussain outside a building on February 27 and then seen entering the building with Umar Khalid.
IPC sections 109 and 114 (abetment), 147, 148, (rioting),149 (unlawful assembly), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 186 (obstructing a public servant from doing his duty), 212 (harbouring offender), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant), 395 (dacoity), 427 (causing mischief), 435, 436 (causing mischief by fire), 452, 454 (trespassing), 505 (public mischief), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy)