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Legal pages of 2023: The UAPA cases that made headlines (and didn't) this year

IndiaTimes Monday, 1 January 2024
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reported a 17.9% increase in UAPA cases in 2022, with Jammu and Kashmir having the maximum number of cases. Advocate Prashant Bhushan raised concerns about 'arbitrary' listing of UAPA cases involving lawyers and journalists in a fact-finding report on Tripura riots. The Popular Front of India (PFI) challenged the legitimacy of UAPA tribunal order upholding ban. NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha and HR head Amit Chakravarty arrested was under UAPA probe. Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj got arrested for alleged 'secessionist agenda'.
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