Water management is essentially a state subject. However, citing differences between Telugu states, the Union government took over the water management of both states.
Jaspal Singh Manjhpur, another advocate who pursues cases under UAPA was also selected as a possible candidate for surveillance, The Wire can confirm.
Apart from around 100 MPs of the Congress, leaders of several opposition parties including TMC, NCP, Shiv Sena, CPI-M, CPI, RJD and Samajwadi Party attended the meeting.
The home ministry's admission that no arrests were made comes against the fact that several videos showing the violence and the masked attackers had gone viral since the attack.
The Indian government will have to first come clean to the court on whether it engaged the NSO Group and spent public money on buying a Pegasus licence.