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No one critical of the government seems to be innocent any longer

If the Uddhav Thackeray govt could order a probe into concerted celebrity tweets defending the Modi govt amid farmers' agitation, there is no reason why it can't do so in the Bhima-Koregaon case

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Bharat Bhushan
The Maharashtra government needs to order an inquiry into the planting of false evidence on Bhima-Koregaon accused Rona Jacob Wilson. It owes this to the Indian public to protect freedom of speech and the right to dissent in our democracy. The sensational but hare-brained ‘conspiracy’ to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi is entirely built on ‘evidence’, which a US cyber forensics company has shown to be fake and planted on the accused, describing it as “one of the most serious cases involving evidence tampering” that it has come across.
 
If the Uddhav Thackeray government can order an investigation into
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