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Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd in Assam, India

New law excludes predominantly non-Muslim tribal communities

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The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain journalist Abhisar Sharma’s plea seeking to quash an FIR lodged by the Assam police over a video in which he accused the state government of indulging in “communal politics” and questioned its land allotment decisions, LiveLaw reported. 

Abhisar Sharma has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Assam police case against him and the constitutionality of section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita under which it was lodged, among other sections, LiveLaw reported. 

In Assam, three recent FIRs have turned the spotlight on a pattern: journalists critical of the government hauled up under a new sedition-style law. There’s another trend – the complainants in at least two of the FIRs ostensibly had links to the BJP or the RSS student wing ABVP.

The Guwahati Crime Branch has registered an FIR against journalist and YouTuber Abhisar Sharma after a local resident’s complaint claiming that Sharma mocked the Assam and central governments in a video.