While most of the over 170 people named in the at least 14 FIRs filed in relation to the matter—one of the more controversial aspects of the police action, as filing multiple FIRs in the same criminal action is illegal as per Indian law—are out on bail, the eight prominent activists charged with ‘criminal conspiracy’ […]
Demonstrators in Delhi, Kolkata, Patna, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, and other cities demand the release of workers and activists arrested after the 2026 Noida wage protests, citing allegations of custodial torture, fabricated evidence, and unlawful police action. Mouli Sharma New Delhi, 11 July 2026 Protests broke out across the country on Saturday as three months […]
Lawyers, activists and academics examining four chargesheets filed in the Noida workers’ protest cases by the UP police say the documents are riddled with contradictory arrest records, fabricated recoveries, vague allegations and glaring procedural violations—raising fundamental questions about the criminalisation of labour protest in Uttar Pradesh. This article was commissioned by and first published […]
The UP Police’s chargesheets filed in FIRs 163/2026, 164/2026, and 165/2026 in relation to the Noida workers’ protest case is a bundle of fairytales and falsehoods, and they reveal a vindictive attempt to entrap and wrongfully prosecute workers and activists on the basis of fabricated and contradictory claims” alleged the Campaign for the Release of […]