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 Analysis of the data so collected and segregated would help expose if Sec. 18 was used deliberately only for the purpose of implicating persons under UAPA to ensure that they did not get bail easily.

What is significant is that 152/238 cases (or 64%) cases involving Sec. 18 charge are in
respect of cases where there is no allegation of a terrorist act or an actual incident of terror
involving the use of weapons or causing physical injury is reported to have taken place. In other
words, in more than half (64%) of the UAPA cases involving Sec.18 charge, the mere allegation
of the police that a person is a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation or that a recovery
of weapon/explosives/money/drugs were made from him is sufficient to get the person arrested
and imprisoned for many years.

Those arrested under UAPA languish in jail sometimes even for decades, waiting for their
trial to begin. By the time they are acquitted, the damage is complete; an irreparable damage is
done to several aspects of their lives, inflicting pain and trauma on them and on all those
dependent on them...

By beginning to document the scale of abuse faced by thousands
under this law and by formulating a comprehensive database on all UAPA prosecutions across
the country, the dangers in the ambiguities of the UAPA law and its draconian provisions
become all the more striking. The objective is also to stimulate more discussions and encourage
more research on the constitutional, moral, ethical and human consequences of the UAPA and
the NIA, as we all come together and demand the repeal of the law.
We ask of the civil societies to be more vigilant, to come together and raise their voices
against the flagrant state abuse. We urge the political parties and leaders of the entire political
spectrum to aid in strengthening the demand to repeal the draconian UAPA and other such laws
which should not have a place in a constitutional democracy where rule of law is upheld

We
seek your support through the following actions:
1. Demand repeal of UAPA.
2. Demand repeal of all other anti-people laws.
3. Demand repeal of the NIA Act and disbanding of NIA.
4. Demand the immediate release of all political prisoners, on bail.
5. Take action against all police officials who have wilfully launched false and
fabricated cases against the marginalised communities, journalists, academicians,
students and others.
6. Take action to provide reparations for those wrongfully accused and released by
courts.

A 79-yr-old academic from Lucknow is standing surety for Kappan, when no one else did
Siddique Kappan’s legal team found it hard to get two people to stand as surety in Uttar Pradesh and that was when Roop Rekha Verma, former VC of Lucknow University stepped in. “This is the minimum any citizen can do in dark times,” she told TNM. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/why-79-year-old-academic-lucknow-decide-stand-surety-kappan-168116

That was when 79-year-old Roop Verma stepped in and said that she is willing to stand as surety for the Kerala journalist, who was arrested while on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman by dominant caste men. According to those who were helping the legal team, it was an arduous task to get two people two stand as surety. A second person has also agreed to stand as surety but the identity is not being revealed considering the sensitivity of the case.

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar | Siddique Kappan को मिली जमानत कहीं से भी राहत की खबर नहीं है https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6lF72hnUKc  Sep 9, 2022 Prime Time With Ravish Kumar - September 9 , 2022: सुप्रीम कोर्ट (Supreme Court) ने केरल (Kerala) के पत्रकार सिद्दिक कप्पन (Siddique Kappan) को शर्तों के साथ ज़मानत देने का फैसला किया है. चीफ जस्टिस यूयू ललित (Justice UU Lalit), जस्टिस S रवींद्र भट्ट (Justice Ravindra Bhat) और जस्टिस पी एस नरसिम्हा (Justice P. S. Narasimha) की बेंच में आज कप्पन की ज़मानत को लेकर सुनवाई हो रही थी. आज भी कपिल सिब्बल (Kapil Sibal) ने वकील होने की भूमिका निभाई है, तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ (Teesta Setalvad) के ज़मानत के मामले भी कपिल सिब्बल ने बहस की थी. सिद्दिक कप्पन 5 अक्तूबर 2020 में गिरफ्तार किए गए थे जब यूपी के हाथरस में अनुसूचित जाति की एक पीड़िता की बलात्कार के बाद हत्या कर दी गई थी.

https://thewire.in/law/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-siddique-kappan

https://youtu.be/R6lF72hnUKc?t=1121 On Journalist being put in Jail. will the officials or persons responsibile for false cases be held accountable? .  https://www.youtube.com/enbed/start=1121&end=1425