Overview
- The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Uttar Pradesh to produce Aditya Anand and Rupesh Roy on May 18 at 2 pm in a petition alleging custodial torture.
- Police in Gautam Buddh Nagar invoked the National Security Act on Wednesday against Satyam Verma and Aakriti Chaudhary, a preventive law that allows detention without trial for up to a year.
- Investigators disclosed on Thursday that more than ₹1 crore in dollars, pounds and euros was credited to Verma’s account and moved to other accounts, a claim his lawyer counters by calling the payments legitimate freelance income.
- Defence teams say the state has not filed supporting NSA documents in court and argue Verma was not in Noida in April while Aakriti was detained on April 11, with challenges now planned in the Allahabad High Court.
- Civil-society groups rallied at Jantar Mantar on Thursday and the Press Club of India on Friday urged the government to drop the NSA case against the journalist, as courts hear bail pleas tied to the April 13 unrest that saw extensive vandalism and mass detentions.