IndiaNewsWatchSupreme Court advocate Sanjay Hegde sounds ‘police state’ alarm over NewsClick FIR
Senior Supreme Court advocate and civil rights promoter Sanjay Hegde has expressed alarm at the mention of a lawyer as a “key person” in the FIR registered against the NewsClick news site under the anti-terror law UAPA. “The day that a lawyer can be deterred from taking a brief that he would have normally taken, that is the beginning of a police state,” Hegde told The Telegraph.
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Supreme Court advocate Sanjay Hegde sounds ‘police state’ alarm over NewsClick FIR
Scores Of People Associated With NewsClick Were Last Week Raided And Questioned By The Delhi Police, Which Is Probing Whether The Website Received Illegal Funds From Shanghai-based US Investor Neville Roy Singham, To 'disrupt Sovereignty And Territorial Integrity Of India'