Supreme' s Sagacity , Gujarat's Policing And Political Poker !
BY R.K. MISRA Poisoned percepts betray their own patterns. More so when policing, like poker, degenerates into the continuation of politics by other means. The Supreme Court of India, had harsh words for the Gujarat Police which should reverberate through the uniformed force countrywide. Quashing an FIR filed against Congress MP, Imran Pratapgarhi over his social media post with a poem “ Ae khoon Ke pyase baat suno ”,it ruled that the right of citizens to express themselves could not be trampled upon on” flimsy and fanciful” grounds. ”No offence is attracted” and police must understand the meaning of written and spoken words before registering a case in such matters, it noted. The Apex Court on March 28 said the fundamental right to free speech through poetry, theatre, stand-up comedy, and satire must be cherished. The cops had charged the Congress MP with inciting discord through his poem on “suffering injustice with love”. The judgment came following an appeal fi...