Warning against muzzling dissent in democracy, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Maharashtra police to keep arrested human right activists and lawyers — Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha, P Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves — confined to their “own houses” till September 6 and not take them to jail.
Warning against muzzling dissent in democracy, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Maharashtra police to keep arrested human right activists and lawyers — Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha, P Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves — confined to their “own houses” till September 6 and not take them to jail.