Lawyers Fighting NIA Cases Are Only Too Familiar With the ‘Plead Guilty’ Playbook

Lawyers Fighting NIA Cases Are Only Too Familiar With the ‘Plead Guilty’ Playbook

Lawyers have different reasons why they support their terror-accused clients as they plead guilty, but they all agree that it is the agency itself that is encouraging – and pushing – these pleas.

Delayed trials pressured many Muslims to plead guilty in NIA cases: Report

The Wire found that in over 40 per cent of concluded NIA cases, convictions followed guilty pleas rather than full trials, with Muslim men from marginalised backgrounds forming the majority, driven to confess by prolonged incarceration, repeated bail denials and uncertainty over trial timelines.