Backstory: The IT Rules Put 'Democratic' India in the League of Dictatorial Regimes
Backstory: The IT Rules Put âDemocraticâ India in the League of Dictatorial Regimes A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson. Illustration: The Wire Media03/Jul/2021 As journalists appeared before the Loni Border Police Station (Uttar Pradeshâs Ghaziabad district) to make statements over whether or not they were guilty of a communally motivated crime by reporting/tweeting on that ugly assault on a 72-year-old Muslim, two aspects jumped out of the page for me. First, the Ghaziabad Police themselves do not seem to have made any credible effort to establish whether this w...