13 Months In Jail: Who Will Compensate This Trio?

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Two weeks ago, I asked a question: is this man a terrorist? I was referring to Father Stan Swamy, the priest who at 84 has been arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case under UAPA and accused of being part of a Maoist group based on very flimsy evidence. This week, I ask another question: who will compensate these three young Indian citizens for the 13 months they’ve spent in jail, accused again under the UAPA for their role in the anti-CAA protests that were seen to lead riots in Delhi last February. I don’t think you need to be introduced to Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Tanha, two from JNU and one from Jamia: their faces are plastered all over the newspapers and tv channels after the Delhi high court granted them bail this week. But it isn’t just an ordinary bail order; this was a scathing indictment of the Delhi police, the union home ministry that the police reports to, and our criminal justice system.