: Lawyer Vrinda Grover says police should be held accountable for arbitrary arrests #IndiaNEWS The police should be held accountable for arbitrary arrests, lawyer Vrinda Grover told Live Law on Sunday.

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Lawyer Vrinda Grover says police should be held accountable for arbitrary arrests #IndiaNEWS
The police should be held accountable for arbitrary arrests, lawyer Vrinda Grover told Live Law on Sunday. The senior advocate claimed that illegal arrests take place not because the police are ignorant of the rules but because they abuse the process of law. She made the statement in connection with journalist and Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s arrest in cases related to his tweets. Grover represented Zubair in the Supreme Court that granted the journalist interim bail on Wednesday in six cases filed against him in Uttar Pradesh.The court had observed that the power of arrest must be pursued sparingly and that there was “no justification� to keep Zubair in further custody.The cases against the journalist are related to satirical comments about television news anchors, allegedly hurting religious sentiments of the Hindu community and posting alleged inflammatory content about deities.On Sunday, Grover said that the first question the court should ask the investigating officer is why the accused person has been arrested.“They [the police] have to make out a case not just that there is a prima facie case against me [an accused person] but they have to make out a case saying that they need to arrest me,� she said. “So the prosecution has to cross many legal thresholds to curtail...Read more

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