Sahil Hussain Choudhury

Sahil Hussain Choudhury is a lawyer and Constitutional Law Researcher based in New Delhi.
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Can police detain someone for ‘verification’? What the law says about questioning and arrest

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The Supreme Court has stated that investigation of the protest-related FIRs may proceed, whiledirecting that no coercive...

Six Years After the Delhi Riots, 82% of Decided Cases Have Ended in Acquittal

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On 23 February 2020, protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in northeast Delhi escalated into communal violence....

What Triggers Swift Policing — and What Does Not?

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What the FIR over an unpublished memoir reveals about policing priorities in India The recent registration of an...

FoEJ Analysis: India Hate Lab’s 2025 Data Shows Hate Speech Isn’t Spiking Anymore — It’s Settling In

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The India Hate Lab’s 2025 report documents 1,318 verified in-person hate speech events targeting religious minorities across...

How the Supreme Court Read Bail Under UAPA Despite Prolonged Incarceration

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The Supreme Court’s UAPA judgment raises difficult questions about how long personal liberty can be deferred before...

What Parliament’s UAPA Numbers Leave Unanswered

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Stand first: Between 2019 and 2023, over 10,000 people were arrested under India’s counter-terror law, according to...