Rush Hour podcast: Shiv Sena MP booked for making Nanded hospital dean clean toilets

In today’s edition, NewsClick says government is using UAPA to stifle independent voices a day after Delhi Police arrested its editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and human resources head Amit Chakravarty, three people were killed and 23 Army soldiers went missing after flash floods in Sikkim, and Shiv Sena MP Hemant Patil was booked for making the acting dean of a hospital in Nanded clean toilets.

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References

• NewsClick says government has failed to prove charges against it, calls UAPA case ‘motivated’
• No one spared in ‘NewsClick’ raids – young staffers, part-time employees, freelance contributors
• The India Fix: From arrests to defections, it’s not easy being the Opposition in India today