National financial and investigation agencies were weaponized against civil society, human rights defenders, activists, journalists and critics, further shrinking civic space. Authorities continued to unlawfully demolish properties belonging to religious minorities as a means of meting out extrajudicial punishment. India’s colonial-era criminal procedure and penal laws were repealed to bring in new laws that continued to carry problematic provisions such as sedition. Travel restrictions were imposed on academics, journalists and human rights defenders by suspending their work visas, denying them entry to the country and cancelling their Overseas Citizen of India status. The Election Commission conducted state legislative assembly elections after 10 years in Jammu & Kashmir. Manipur continued to reel under ethnic violence.
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