Aarey tree-cutting: Quash FIR, demand 29 protesters who were held
(WorldNews India)

The 29 people who were arrested for protesting the felling of trees by Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd in Aarey Milk Colony have demanded that the cases registered against them should be dropped. Advertising They were charged under Sections 353 and 332, relating to obstructing public officials from discharging their duties. The protesters alleged that it was the police that assaulted them, and not the other way around, and criticised the Mumbai Police FIR treating environment lovers like `hardcore criminals`. Rishav Ranjan, a law student based in Greater Noida, whose letter to the Chief Justice of India to...