The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 31st May 2024

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Hindu Editorial Vocab On The Umar Khalid Protests Case

A perverse combination of statutory restrictions and judicial deference (respect shown for another person esp. because of that person’s experience, knowledge, age, or power) has kept former university scholar Umar Khalid in prison for over three years. In yet another order denying him bail, a Sessions Court in Delhi declined to change its mind on earlier findings that the charge that he was part of a “larger conspiracy” behind the north-east Delhi riots of 2020 was prima facie true. It declined to countenance the argument that the trial proceedings were being delayed far too long and that a July 2023 judgment on grant of bail in cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) could support his petition for bail. The court, instead, banked on earlier orders denying him bail, especially the Delhi High Court’s 2022 verdict that agreed with the Delhi Police claim that the riots were “orchestrated at conspiratorial (relating to a secret plan to do something bad, illegal, or against someone’s wishes) meetings”, even though there is nothing more than WhatsApp chats on organising road blockades to substantiate it. Bail hearings have been interminably (continuing for too long and therefore boring or annoying) long in Mr. Khalid’s case, and inevitably end in rejections. In fact, before the Supreme Court, his bail application was listed over a dozen times, and repeatedly adjourned. He chose to withdraw the application in February 2024 and try his luck before the lower courts again. However, the Sessions Court did not see any reason to change its view.

The outcome is quite unfortunate (of remarks or behaviour) not suitable in a way that could cause embarrassment or offence), as while granting bail in 2021 to three other activists implicated in the Delhi riots case, the Delhi High Court had looked at the available evidence (facts, information, documents, etc. that give reason to believe that something is true) and ruled that none of them had been specifically accused of any ‘terrorist’ act or plot or act preparatory to it. It had remarked that the state, in its anxiety to suppress (to end something by force) dissent, had blurred the line between the constitutionally guaranteed right to protest and terrorist activity. The attempt to conflate (to combine two or more separate things, especially pieces of text, to form a whole) the organisation of the protests against the amendment to the citizenship law with the riots resulted in the police invoking UAPA without justification. The UAPA bars the grant of bail if the court is of the view that the allegations (a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal) against a suspect are prima facie true. To compound the difficulty, judicial decisions prohibit any detailed scrutiny of the evidence at the bail stage, and mandate accepting the prosecution (the act of taking part in a planned set of activities, especially a war) case based on its “broad probabilities”. This low standard enables the police to repeatedly achieve success in opposing bail to dissenters and the disfavoured. Umar Khalid’s continued and unjust incarceration (to put or keep someone in prison or in a place used as a prison) represents a trend as well as an aberration in the criminal justice system. A system that sometimes bats for personal liberty also demonises (to try to make someone or a group of people seem as if they are evil) protesters, allows unwanted arrests and routinely denies bail or indefinitely (for an unlimited or unknown amount of time) postpones bail hearings.

Hindu Editorial Vocab Wordlist 31st May 2024

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• Deference: Respect shown for another person esp. because of that person’s experience, knowledge, age, or power.
• Conspiratorial: Relating to a secret plan to do something bad, illegal, or against someone’s wishes.
• Interminably: Continuing for too long and therefore boring or annoying
• Unfortunate: (of remarks or behaviour) not suitable in a way that could cause embarrassment or offence.
• Evidence: Facts, information, documents, etc. that give reason to believe that something is true.
• Suppress: To end something by force.
• Conflate: To combine two or more separate things, especially pieces of text, to form a whole.
• Allegation: A statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal.
• Prosecution: The act of taking part in a planned set of activities, especially a war.
• Incarceration: To put or keep someone in prison or in a place used as a prison.
• Demonises: To try to make someone or a group of people seem as if they are evil.
• Indefinitely: For an unlimited or unknown amount of time.

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