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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns

This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23

PRESS RELEASE: Teesta Setalvad roughed up as Gujarat ATS personnel barge into her home

The human rights defender fears for her life as she is taken to Ahmedabad, ostensibly to the Crime Branch where a complaint of forgery is lodged against her

I fear for my life: Teesta Setalvad allegedly roughed up by Gujarat ATS personnel

Police barged into her home and allegedly assaulted her; Setalvad arrested from Mumbai and taken to Ahmedabad Crime branch

Gyanvapi case: Varanasi court reserves order on admitting petition pertaining to FIR against mosque committee

VVSS, a Hindutva group had moved court demanding FIR against mosque authorities for allegedly damaging parts of temple located on mosque premises

Jharkand HC to hear PIL demanding NIA probe into Ranchi violence on June 24

The PIL filed by one Pankaj Yadav has has demanded NIA investigation into the entire incident. A division bench comprising chief justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad first heard the PIL on June 17

Custodial Torture Case: Gujarat HC orders a probe into allegations

Pulling up the police for “misleading the court,”, HC orders state to file a fresh affidavit with “some concrete action and promptness”, grants time till July 4

India in the age of State-sponsored Doxing

A closer look at the legal provisions surrounding revealing private information of individuals

Mumbai Court grants bail to three students in the Bulli Bai app case

A Mumbai court while granting bail to three students in the Bulli Bai app case, which targeted Muslim women by arranging for their "auction", held that their "immature age and understanding" was misused by other accused with "deeper understanding".

Allegations of selective demolitions are false, Due process of law followed: UP gov’t to SC

State urges SC to hold the petitioners to terms for the false and baseless allegations

Gyanvapi case: Plea demanding FIR against mosque authorities to be heard on June 23

Varanasi Civil Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who ordered video survey of mosque premises, among 619 judges transferred by Allahabad HC

Repair, compensate, prosecute: Parveen Fatima in petition before Allahabad HC

The petition demands restitution; prays for reconstruction of the bull-dozed residence, alternate government accommodation in in the interim and punishment of officials responsible for illegal act

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