{"id":194610,"date":"2022-07-07T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T11:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=194610"},"modified":"2022-07-07T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T11:45:37","slug":"weaponization-of-ipc-to-set-police-on-journalists-cuts-across-parties-and-clamps-down-on-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/weaponization-of-ipc-to-set-police-on-journalists-cuts-across-parties-and-clamps-down-on-press-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaponization of IPC to set police on journalists cuts across parties \u2014 and clamps down on press freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201cWeaponization of IPC to set police on journalists cuts across parties \u2013 and clamps down on press freedom\u201d published in the Indian Express on 7<sup>th<\/sup> July 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS2 &#8211; Important provisions of the constitution of India<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Fundamental Rights<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Recently, Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt News, and Rohit Ranjan, Zee News anchor were arrested by Delhi Police and Chhattisgarh Police, respectively, in different circumstances and specific contexts.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What were the causes?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Zubair was arrested for a 2018 tweet that shared a clip from a 1980s\u2019 film by <strong>Hrishikesh Mukherjee<\/strong>, weeks after he flagged controversial remarks that were made on the Prophet, in his TV debate.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested under <strong>Sections 153 (A) and 295 (A)<\/strong>, for promoting enmity between different groups, and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings among the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rohit Ranjan<\/strong> was arrested for his show which ran a misleading video of Rahul Gandhi, for which the channel later apologised.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Argument against such arrest<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The arrest amounts to endangering <strong>due process <\/strong>and violations of the rights and freedoms of speech and expression.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution of India guarantees freedom to ask questions to the state, express opposition or <strong>dissent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There are allegations of <strong>weaponization <\/strong>of the sections of IPC. For example, misuse of IPC\u2019s Section 124A in Ravi\u2019s case or Sections 153 and 295 against Zubair and Ranjan in the ongoing case.<\/p>\n<p>On the world stage, India speaks of \u201c<strong>vibrant democracy\u201d <\/strong>and commits to \u201cprotecting the freedom of expression and opinion online and offline\u201d.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Way Forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The ruling parties as well as the opposition parties need to look at their failure to protect free speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article \u201cWeaponization of IPC to set police on journalists cuts across parties \u2013 and clamps down on press freedom\u201d published in the Indian Express on 7th July 2022. Syllabus: GS2 &#8211; Important provisions of the constitution of India Relevance: Fundamental Rights News: Recently, Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/weaponization-of-ipc-to-set-police-on-journalists-cuts-across-parties-and-clamps-down-on-press-freedom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weaponization of IPC to set police on journalists cuts across parties \u2014 and clamps down on press freedom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-194610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704923800},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}