Express digs deeper into the issue of arrest of three YouTubers
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CHENNAI: It s a thin line that separates freedom of expression from offensive remarks in our highly sentimental society. In the recent arrest of three YouTubers, over charges of creating and sharing “obscene videos,” activists feel the State police have transgressed that line in dealing with a subjective concept like morality. The issue began when they released a video featuring a young woman, talking about her sexual preferences and having multiple partners.
Following the arrests, all the videos in that YouTube channel were taken down. The Chennai Police went to the extent of sending out an informal warning to all content creators, asking them to remove such “indecent content.”
FEMALE farmers staged thousands-strong rallies in many Indian states on Monday calling for the repeal of pro-corporate agricultural laws.
January 18 was declared Women Farmers’ Day in India and a range of women’s organisations staged rallies and tractor parades demanding the Narendra Modi government reverse the laws, which lift price controls on essential crops and allow private stockpiling and unregulated cross-state sale of foods.
A joint statement issued by the All-India Democratic Women’s Association (Aidwa), the National Federation of Indian Women, All-India Progressive Women’s Association and others read: “The Modi government has launched a full-scale attack on the survival of a large section of our population.
India’s Invisible Women Farmers
The farmers’ protests outside New Delhi have cast a spotlight on a traditionally overlooked group: the women who keep India’s farms running.
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Woman farmer Sohajdeep Kaur, 40, center, with others shout slogans as they block a highway in protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Haryana state border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020.
Credit: AP Photo/Manish Swarup
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At Tikri village, bordering the western fringes of India’s national capital New Delhi, thousands of farmers from across the country have been agitating since November 26. Their target: the government’s new farm laws, which they view as “pro-corporate” and “exploitative” toward Indian farmers.
Coimbatore: The CBI has rounded up three more people in connection with the Pollachi rape case based on the statements given by the survivors before a magistrate court a few weeks ago.
Of the six people named by the survivors, the CBI arrested and remanded three accused on Wednesday. The other three, who also hail from Pollachi and surrounding areas, are expected to be arrested soon. The investigation agency gave all the details to the court in a sealed cover. This is a sensational case and the investigation agency won’t reveal the identity of the three more people until the arrest, an official said.
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COIMBATORE: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested three men, including an AIADMK student wing functionary, in connection with the sensational Pollachi sexual assault and extortion case. The arrested were identified as K Arulanantham, 34, of Vadugapalayam in Pollachi, T Heron Paul, 29, of Achipatti in Pollachi and P Babu, 27, of Vadugapalayam.
Arulanantham, Pollachi town secretary of AIADMK students wing, was expelled from the party following the arrest. The party has instructed members not to have any links with him.
The arrests were made after a magistrate court recorded the statements of three survivors a few weeks ago. The women said that the arrested men, along with N Sabarirajan abducted them in a car in June 2018, sexually assaulted them and threatened to leak the footage, a source said.