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Welcome to low level politics in India. Piss off an MLA or Panchayat Member, let alone an MP, and being arrested would be the least of your worries.

At least this guy wasn't burned alive like the journalist who reported on an MLA in the neighboring district committing corruption and rape in 2015 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jagendra_Singh

Jai Jai Uttar Pradesh I guess

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Siddique Kappan: Indian journalist released from jail after two years [1]. He was arrested in October 2020 in Uttar Pradesh state, where a young Dalit woman had died after she was allegedly raped by four upper-caste men.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64494426

I mean if you're just going to lawlessly arrest people, why wouldn't the police just like arrest the upper class and take their shit? Why bother with some measly journalist.

The Upper Class have networks as well. Journalists, Police, Civil Servants - they're all "chamchas"

The police take their orders from the local upper caste leaders.

Lower caste too. Look at the Yadavs and the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh or the Kurmis and RJD in Bihar