Tripura books 4 Supreme Court lawyers under UAPA

AGARTALA: Tripura police have registered a case against four Supreme Court lawyers under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and various sections of

IPC

for allegedly promoting communal disharmony with their social media posts about the recent violence in the state.


They have been asked to appear before the police by November 10 for questioning, superintendent of police of West Tripura district Manik Das said on Friday.

Notices were served to Ehtesham Hashmi;

Amit Srivastav

, coodinator of Lawyers for Democracy; Ansar Indori, secretary of National Confederation of Human Rights Organization; and Mukesh Kumar, member of People’s Union for Civil Liberties. They allegedly claimed that minorities were targeted.