The most abused word.

In reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh stated, "The Government of India believes that asylum seekers, while applying for asylum to a foreign government, denigrate the system in India to obtain personal gains despite the fact that India, being a democratic country, provides avenues for everyone to redress their grievances legally." mea.gov.in. Really? "Over the past decade, Indian prisons increasingly had more undertrial prisoners, with their share increasing from 66% of prisoners in 2012 to 76% in 2022, a revealed in the latest Prison Statistics India report released by the National Crimes Record Bureau." "A primary contributing factor to this trend is the indiscriminate arrests carried out by the police," so that "Individuals belonging to marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted" and "difficulties in meeting bail conditions contribute to the heightened likelihood of underprivileged individuals spending time in prisons without being convicted." IndiaSpend. Cases take years to resolve as judges grant repeated adjournments to lawyers who charge fees per appearance (Lloyd Law College) and therefore profit from indefinite prolongation. Nearly 35 million criminal cases and 11 million civil cases are languishing in courts for over one year, 9% of them for over 10 years, 16% for 5-10 years, 13% for 3-5 years and 22% for 1-3 years. njdg.ecourts.gov.in. Last month, "The Supreme Court...reiterated its concern on keeping an accused under custody for a long period without commencement of trial," with Justice Ujjal Bhuyan commenting that "the conviction rate of ED is very poor." ET. ED stands for the dreaded Enforcement Directorate which can imprison people and attach bank accounts and properties (BS) without any evidence, as Justice Bhuyan noted. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) allows authorities to lock up anyone for any length of time without bail just by accusing the person of terrorism without having to provide any evidence. wikipedia. In 2022, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs, 24,134 people were accused under the UAPA of which only 212 were  convicted. 3047 had been in prison since 2016, 4098 since 2017, 4862 since 2018, 5645 since 2019 and 6482 since 2020. The Wire.  "We Indians are happy with whatever life presents us because we have no one else except Pakistan and Bangladesh to compare with," wrote Sanjiv Krishnan Sood. After his recent travel in Uzbekistan, Sood found that "The country which is ranked 67th or so in the world in terms of Gross Domestic Product, leads the world's fifth largest economy (India) by far in infrastructure and functional systems." The Wire. "In interesting turn of events, search engine Google has seen a huge spike in web searches in India regarding 'legal immigration', 'H1B visa' and 'US birth citizenship', following Donald Trump's mega victory in the United States (US) Presidential elections." News18. In the last few days, protests by people in South Korea forced President Yoon Suk Yeol to withdraw the declaration of martial law and now the police are investigating the president himself for "insurrection". BBC. This can never happen in India because we have 28 states (Know India), each with a different government, language and culture. The greed for power ensures that there is no shortage of collaborators and so there can never be a united uprising against the government which can do anything just by having a simple majority in the Lok Sabha. Democracy is thus the most abused word in India. It doesn't need any evidence. Like UAPA.