Udhayanidhi Stalin was arrested over remarks made during a Cauvery water-sharing protest. While the remarks have been widely criticised, this video examines two legal questions: Were all the sections invoked in the FIR justified? And more importantly, was his arrest legally necessary?
Drawing on Supreme Court judgments including Joginder Kumar, DK Basu, Arnesh Kumar, Siddharth and Satender Kumar Antil, our latest explainer looks at the principles governing arrest, personal liberty under Article 21, and why the power to arrest is not the same as the necessity to arrest.