Lawyer says cold hard truth will undo anti-CAA arrests.
| | | | | | | 32-year-old Ashma Izzat, who was born in Sikandarpur, a small town in the district of Balia, grew up in Ghazipur in eastern UP, and studied law at Kanpur University, says she will.
Beginning on the day after the violence in Lucknow, Izzat stood outside the Lucknow jail for several days in a row, waiting to meet the families of those who had been swept up by the state police. She also studied First Information Reports (FIRs) filed by the police about the incident.
So far, Izzat says that she has found 17 clients and has won bail for all of them despite the grave charges against them. Almost all of them are economically marginalised Muslims. Izzat is representing them pro bono.
“There are a bunch of us lawyers who are doing this kind of work,” Izzat told Huffpost India's Betwa Sharma. "We can expose the UP government’s lies, case by case in the courts." |
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