He was replying to a question at the end of a keynote address during the ‘11th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Centre on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination’. The question was on the arbitrary arrests. The questioner said we seem to live in a society where one acts first and seeks forgiveness later. 

This has become particularly true for public authorities acting in a politically motivated manner by detaining activists, academics, journalists and even politicians, including the chief ministers of opposition parties, he said. According to him, all of these actions are taken with deep trust in the face of justice coming very slowly.

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