Reduced to zero

"Cockroach Janta Party...withdrew its call for a march on 5 September after Supreme Court, on the Centre's request, quashed all FIRs registered across the country against students who participated in the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test)." The government gave three assurances: the Centre would not pursue FIRs registered between July 20 and July 25, no fresh FIRs would be registered in connection with the matter and the government would pay compensation to students who died by suicide allegedly in connection with NEET paper leak. TOI. FIR, or the First Information Report, is a document prepared by the police to record information about a cognizable offence. wikipedia. Indian police, controlled by politicians, registered FIRs against unarmed students but not against the use of lethal weapons by the fascist state. The Delhi Police was forced to register an "FIR in the case of a 19-year-old student protester who suffered pellet-gun injuries during the 20 July march on Parliament as Rahul Gandhi, accompanied by the victim, Sahil Lochab, staged a sit-in outside a Delhi Police station, refusing to budge until an FIR is filed in the case." NDTV. And yet Noida Police filed a 'Zero FIR' against a minor girl who apparently used insulting language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "A zero FIR is one recorded at a station that has no local jurisdiction and then transferred onward, in this case, to Delhi." "The sections invoked were 352, 353(1) and 356(1) of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, dealing with insult, public mischief and defamation respectively." "All of them descend from Macaulay's Penal Code enacted in 1860," wrote Saurav Gupta 

and Aditya Prasanna Bhattacharya. The Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita was enacted by this Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in 2023. wikipedia. Bharatiya means 'belonging to Bharat' or the Republic of India. Wiktionary. Ironic that the party which claims to be for the Indian Republic is using the draconian colonial Indian Penal Code (IPC), drafted by Thomas Babington Macaulay (wikipedia) to force allegiance to the British monarch, to oppress independent Indians. The 15-year-old girl against whom the coercive Zero FIR was registered recorded a video in which she said, "Modiji, you have turned my life into hell. I am unable to leave my home and have had to hide my face wherever I go." The Wire. A 75-year-old man has let loose his attack dogs on a child. How vindictive and small-minded can you get? In his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Delhi, Mr Modi said, "We have succeeded in getting rid of armed Naxals in the jungles, but 'dimagi Naxals' (intellectual Naxals) are looking for opportunities to create violence, unrest..." NDTV. "The least we expect from an elected premier in a democracy, is that he is loyal to his people, that he protects them and respects them," "But from the beginning of his long tenure PM Modi and his speech writers have concentrated on slighting and even abusing citizens who raise their voices against specific policies or inaction - Khan Market Gang. Tukde Tukde Gang, anit-nationals and so on," wrote Neera Chandhoke. "It will cost you very dearly," warned Union Minister Kiran Rijiju to "protesters and Khalistani supporters who put their feet on the Indian national flag and tore it outside New York Madison Square Garden,...when people gathered there to hear RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's address." NDTV. He doesn't know that "The US Supreme Court has ruled that burning the American flag can be protected under the First Amendment when it is used as a form of political expression." Just Criminal Law. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words will never hurt me," is a children's rhyme. In India, a 75-year old man is using police batons and pellet guns against slogans from children. Zero FIR, zero respect, zero dignity. How embarrassing. For us.