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Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
IMPORTANT : The high profile Gokul Dairy Co-operative chairman election in Kolhapur won by the Mahayuti govt in Maharashtra . The Congress backed panel had earlier won the 25 board member elections by a narrow 13-12 margin. The Fadnavis-led govt brought in an ordinance and nominated four additional members with voting rights! Final result? 16-13!! So if 13-12 can be turned into 16-13 by an ordinance, what chance does the farmer-voter's mandate really have? Demo-crazy Maharashtra istyle!🙏
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
Ramayana :Part 1 was watched in a packed hall. I was quite taken by how the film looks at Ravana and his origin story. The scene where his many personas debate among themselves was quite a compelling one. I did feel the Ram-Sita relationship needed more moments and sketching out
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
Saw Ramayana today. It's one of the most ambitious film Bollywood has ever attempted. It plays like Lord of the Rings and largely delivers.
The VFX and fight sequences are stunning, the first hour is brilliant and the background score is outstanding. Loved it.
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
I witnessed visit to Naval ships by Indiraji, Morarji, Jagjeevan Ran ji, Bansilal ji, Rajiv ji during my service and observed such visits by Vajpayee ji , Manmohan ji and other Prime ministers as a veteran but never such Nautanki was seen. The attire, conduct & address despicable
क्या किसी भी सैन्य या अर्धसैन्य बल की महिला अधिकारियों - सिपाहियों को किसी सत्ता के शीर्ष व्यक्ति के लिए ऐसे नचवाना एक उचित गतिविधि है ?
कोई वर्दी और सैन्य बलों का जानकार, समझदार व्यक्ति बता सकता है ?
@ashokkmrsingh @PkchowIA @ColRohitChaudry @AnumaVidisha @KarmveerKhicha1 🙏
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
YouTube @dhruv_rathee says Delhi Police tried to clone his phone and failed only because their software was too old for his iPhone. In January, Home Minister Amit Shah personally cleared the NIA to buy Cellebrite, the Israeli phone-extraction tool, bypassing Make in India rules. About ₹5 crore. The spec sheet names iPhones 11 to 14 and specific Android models.
Cellebrite bypasses your passcode and pulls everything. Every app, every chat, every photo. No law says when police may do this, to whom, or how long they keep it.
This is not about one YouTuber. Phones have been seized from protesters and journalists too. IFF has filed RTIs, and has a petition in the Supreme Court on surveillance powers.
Are we comfortable with the NIA, the Home Ministry and State police buying this, with no rulebook? Happy Diwali. May the diyas of liberty light up our lives.
#Cellebrite #Surveillance #Privacy #DigitalRights #DhruvRathee #NIA #DelhiPolice #IFF
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗠𝗢𝗚𝗚𝗔 𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗢 𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟮𝟭?
• Star Air, the only remaining airline, has stopped accepting bookings beyond November 21.
• IndiGo and SpiceJet have already withdrawn their services.
• Three years after PM Modi inaugurated the airport, flight operations could come to a complete halt as the UDAN subsidy period ends.
• Nearly ₹500 crore was spent on building the airport.
Another airport built with public money but struggling to sustain flight operations. What went wrong with the UDAN model?
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
If your phone was taken in Delhi last month, do not reset it. Traces of an extraction can survive on the device and may be the only proof of what was done. Write to us at legal@internetfreedom.in. Every document we relied on is linked in the post. (9/10)
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
On 10 Oct Delhi Police detained @dhruv_rathee and took his phone. On @kunalkamra88’s podcast with @ShyamMeeraSingh he said he believes they tried to clone it with Cellebrite. We can’t verify that. But we can show what the government buys. (1/10)
Writes @Vikram0Raj : internetfreedom.in/the-home-…
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
Under no legal definition of contempt law does this qualify as contempt of court. 😆
Supreme Court hears contempt case against Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee over a social media post against CJI Surya Kant
The controversial post against the CJI appeared on the official X handle of Congress Kerala on October 12. It read,
"Dear Surya Kant, If law and order is not your domain, resign now. We will find your replacement who can handle it."
Bench: Justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M Pancholi
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
Tomorrow, while I have a few matters to argue, and I’m grateful to my clients for trusting me with them, I’ll also be in court as a litigant myself with a case for IFF that's being represented by the Chambers of Abhik Chimney. As any litigator will tell you, you can spend a whole career in court and still hope to avoid that particular role.
It’s also the last working day before the Diwali break and I’m hoping to get out of court, grab a beer with friends and take a little time off. Wish me luck carrying IFF’s flag into the Delhi High Court, this time without my lawyer band.
Due to the lack of any official denial or rescision by the Delhi Police for the takedown notices for IFF's X Account that were communicated by X to us, IFF has been constrained to file a writ petition in the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi. The matter is registered and will come up for hearing tomorrow. We rely on your good wishes and support.🤞
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
Five weeks ago we reported that two Election Commissioners had objected 14 times in 10 months, revealing an unprecedented rift inside the Election Commission.
Since then the Commission has reversed course on almost EVERY move the two Commissioners had
red-flagged.
The last was Form 6.
The SIR declaration is now out of the online form everywhere, including the states where the SIR is still running. It’s a separate declaration now.
With this, the reversal is complete. Let me explain.
indianexpress.com/article/in…
🧵 (1/13)
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
If 3 crore people “infiltrated” our country, then what was the Home Minister doing? Sleeping?
Amit Shah is a FAILURE and must be SACKED!
Amit Shah calls 3 crore votes dropped in SIR ‘infiltrators’: ‘They never existed’ indianexpress.com/article/in…
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
Isn’t it amazing @apar that rampant slander and defamation is actively allowed to proliferate but anything questioning govt receives takedown notices? @internetfreedom is doing a tremendous job. Where would we be without you? But perhaps @elonmusk also needs a relook at X policies- hopefully after some public signals in the US!!
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
The Maharashtra government is brazenly attempting to subvert the democratic mandate of milk producers at the Gokul Milk Federation by using legislative changes to manipulate the composition of an elected board.
In the 19 October elections, the Congress-led panel won 13 of 25 seats, securing a majority over the Mahayuti’s 12. After Mahayuti-backed directors stalled the chairman’s election by remaining absent, the Bombay High Court directed a fresh election on 10 November.
Instead of allowing the elected board to function, the state Cabinet has approved a proposal to nominate four government directors with voting rights, potentially altering the electoral arithmetic and overturning the mandate of milk producers.
The larger question is whether a government can change the rules after an election simply because it does not like the result. We are challenging this decision in the Supreme Court to defend the democratic mandate and the autonomy of cooperative institutions.
Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 retweeted
I am told that even digital rights defender @SFLCin is requested to be taken down.
“The request cite grounds including hate speech, alleged defamation of the RSS, and safety and security concerns.”
This is alarming! And why is the Delhi Police concerned about the so-called “defamation” of the RSS? The government is testing people’s patience at this point.
