It follows more than a dozen similar arrests last year in a clampdown on those attacking the Hindu nationalist premier’s policies or ideology. A television reporter is in jail in the northeastern state of Manipur for alleged posts that also criticised Modi and the state’s chief minister Biren Singh. Kishorechandra Wangkhem was arrested in December under a Draconian law that allows authorities to detain anyone for up to a year without trial. He had accused Singh of promoting right-wing Hindu ideology in the region and called him a “puppet” of Modi and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hardline Hindu group. “People are being accused under range of laws including sedition and threats to national security.”Read full story

Source: The Express Tribune January 28, 2019 11:37 UTC