: ‘I hang my head in shame,’ says Kapil Sibal on the state of judiciary #IndiaNEWS Rajya Sabha MP and senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Sunday said that the judiciary has “let us down� and he wants

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‘I hang my head in shame,’ says Kapil Sibal on the state of judiciary #IndiaNEWS
Rajya Sabha MP and senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Sunday said that the judiciary has “let us down� and he wants to “hang his head in shame� after the recent court judgements against journalist Mohammed Zubair, human rights activist Teesta Setalvad, among others, PTI reported.Zubair, a co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News, was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 27 on charges of hurting religious sentiments for a tweet that he had posted in March 2018. A Delhi court on Saturday denied him bail and remanded the journalist to 14 days in judicial custody, saying the investigation was at an initial stage and given the “nature and gravity of offences�.The court order came after the Delhi Police added charges of criminal conspiracy, causing disappearance of evidence and violating foreign funding norms in the first information report against Zubair.In an interview with PTI on Sunday, Sibal noted that Zubair was arrested for a tweet posted four years ago without any communal outcome.“Some members of the institution [the judiciary] of which I have been a part for 50 years, have let us down,� he said. “I hang my head in shame that this has happened. When the judiciary turns a blind eye to ex facie violations of the rule of law,...Read more

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