Key Points
Perhaps the central government is telling the truth when it says that the AAP profited massively from the scam and then spent the money on its campaign for the Goa elections..
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government strengthened the Act in 2008 and 2012 and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government amended it once again in 2019 to give wider powers to policemen to designate individuals as terrorists without bothering with any judicial process...
So, a government that wants to use the laws that allow it to lock people up without the nuisance of having to first gather enough proof to convict them has it easy: previous governments have already passed the laws and voters dont mind...
Once he was elected, however, the BJP didnt do much to follow up on these allegations, and the biggest scam of that erathe 2G scamfizzled out after the Modi government failed to obtain a single conviction in the case..
Nor is it a good thing for the rights of Indias citizens when so many laws allow authorities to lock people up without any real hope of bail: and that applies to the AAP leaders who have spent months in jail as much as it does to anyone else..
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