A TADA court in Ajmer, Rajasthan, acquitted Abdul Karim Tunda, the main accused in the 1993 serial bomb blasts case, on Thursday due to a lack of evidence. Lack of concrete evidence According to Tunda's lawyer, the Central Bureau of Investigation failed to provide substantial evidence in various acts, including TADA, IPC, Railway Acts, Arms Act, or Explosive Substances Act. …
“A person suffers in jail for three to four years and then gets acquitted after the prosecution fails to prove his guilt. About 97 percent of the arrests were made without any evidence, under the Unlawful Activities Act, 1967 cases,” said G. Haragopal, human rights activists and retired professor from the University of Hyderabad. In the city to participate in …
Cataclysmic moments, even those that could have been predicted, are known to prise open the clutches of rigid unquestioning and herald significant shifts, if not change. Key features of TADA and POTA include the admissibility of confessions before police officers as evidence, a provision that not only contravenes Section 26 of the Indian Evidence Act but is an open invitation …
