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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

This is something spoiling the atmosphere: SC in Dharm Sansad case

Apex Court hears plea by Jitendra Tyagi aka Wasim Rizvi challenging Uttarakhand HC’s order denying him bail

Gyanvapi case: Two more advocate commissioners added to Shringar Gauri survey team

Videographic survey to be completed by May 17; Advocate Commissioner Ajai Kumar not replaced

Gyanvapi case: Court to pronounce order in Shringar Gauri temple survey matter today

Mosque authorities had accused the Advocate Commissioner conducting the survey of bias and demanded his replacement

Landmark ruling: SC orders Sedition law to be kept in abeyance

Apex Court urges Centre and states to refrain from registering any FIRs invoking Section 124-A IPC; those already booked under the section can seek bail

Delhi Violence: Delhi HC issues notice in Gulfisha Fatima’s bail plea

Delhi HC seeks response from Delhi government on appeal challenging Trial Court’s order denying bail in the larger conspiracy case

Bombay HC directs Maha gov’t to withdraw pending criminal cases against farmers and social activists

They had been protesting CAA and other government policies; Aurangabad Bench of the HC directs State gov't to file affidavit and submit a report 

Hindus as minority: Centre flip-flops on power to notify minority status

Centre now asks the Supreme Court for more time to discuss with state governments the power to notify minority status

Now, jail authorities deny GN Saibaba plastic water bottle!

First the NIA had denied late Fr. Stan Swamy a sipper in Taloja jail, now Nagpur Jail authorities deny the 90 percent physically disabled political dissenter a plastic bottle to drink water

Jahangirpuri violence: Delhi Court refuses bail to eight accused

Court observes that Police accompanied the illegal processions, hence the liability on the part of the concerned officials needs to be fixed

Cruel, diabolic, barbaric, gruesome and inhuman: Allahabad High Court on Lakhimpur Kheri massacre

Court made this observation while denying bail to four Lakhimpur Kheri accused; dismissed the bail pleas based on possibility of tampering of evidence or endangering witnesses

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