Hyperlegality And Criminal Justice: How India Strips its Dissenters of their Human Rights and Constitutional Protections

The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1937 (UAPA) is India’s primary anti-terrorism legislation that is widely used by the government as a political tool to authorise rampant arbitrary arrests of any dissenter, protestor or social activist whose opinion is not in congruence with the ideological aspirations of the government. The illegality of such arbitrary arrests is…