> Process is the punishment in India. They can arrest you based on allegations, keep you in jail for months without even filing a charge sheet and no one is liable when a court finally acquits you after months or years of jail time.
> In any functioning democracy, government should not be able to arrest members of their opposition parties or journalists just based on allegations.
What is your yardstick for a functioning democracy?
> If an alleged scam of 100 Crore rupees is really a reason of arrest then why Adani is not arrested yet with an alleged scam and money laundering of thousands of crore rupees?
Who says there was such a scam? The Hindenburg group did say, but they are a short seller who allegedly benefited from falling prices of Adani's stocks. And their word is not a valid authority in Indian law to book a case against anyone.
Not different than many different than many other democracies, lots of suspects held in custody without conviction: https://www.americasquarterly.org/fulltextarticle/prisons-in...
> In any functioning democracy, government should not be able to arrest members of their opposition parties or journalists just based on allegations.
What is your yardstick for a functioning democracy?
> If an alleged scam of 100 Crore rupees is really a reason of arrest then why Adani is not arrested yet with an alleged scam and money laundering of thousands of crore rupees?
Who says there was such a scam? The Hindenburg group did say, but they are a short seller who allegedly benefited from falling prices of Adani's stocks. And their word is not a valid authority in Indian law to book a case against anyone.