Why there is no legal basis for India’s crackdown on pro-Palestine protests

Naveed Mehmood Ahmad, senior resident fellow with the Criminal Justice Team at the legal policy think-tank Vidhi said that the charging of protestors with offences dealing with promoting enmity or participating in an unlawful assembly is strange. “These offences require an intention to either use criminal force or an intention to incite violence,” he said. “There is nothing to indicate that these protests fulfilled this criterion. He added: “A peaceful protest against human rights violations in another part of the world or an expression of solidarity cannot even remotely be associated with an act of creating disharmony between two groups living in India.” This article was published in Scroll.in on November 3, 2023.