Retired IPS officer S R Darapuri, who was arrested for protesting against the new citizenship law, outside a court in Lucknow on Saturday. They were picked up by the police from their respective homes much before the arrests were officially made. Shoaib was already a member of the youth wing of the Socialist Party when I was born in 1965. In his later years of practice, he also took up cases of youth who were implicated in terrorism or related cases. Is the BJP government in UP being vindictive in order to cover up its failure in maintaining law and order?

Source: Indian Express December 30, 2019 18:33 UTC