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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

Gujarat hospital fire: HC sets aside order restraining commission from submitting report

Gujarat has seen multiple fire incidents in hospitals leaving several dead or injured, prompting the SC to take suo motu cognisance about fire safety

UP police file 5,000-page chargesheet against Siddique Kappan

The police have alleged that Kappan and others received about Rs. 80 lakhs from financial institutions in Doha and Muscat to create unrest in the state

On academic and other freedoms

Is it at all possible, also desirable, to divide freedom into compartments?

MP High Court pushes for guidelines to prevent procedural lapses in NSA detention orders

The court set aside a preventive detention order as the due process of law laid down under NSA was not followed by the Magistrate and the state government

Guj Court convicts three men for 2013 assault on Amrabhai Boricha

The same men are also accused in the 2021 murder of the Dalit farmer and RTI activist

Guj HC points out “rampant misuse” of PASA Act

The court said that this was one of the examples where the police took on the responsibility to settle financial disputes between parties

Delhi Police close case against The Tribune for investigative reporting on Aadhaar data breach

The reporter was able to get unauthorised access to personal data of Aadhaar card holders, by paying money to an agent, in order to expose the susceptibility of breach of the database

Bihar man dies in police custody; family alleges torture

He was detained while returning home after Holi celebration, for being in an inebriated state and in a few hours had to be taken to the hospital where he was declared dead

Delhi court denies anticipatory bail to man who carried sword at Red Fort on R-Day

The ASJ observed that no citizen can have “unfettered liberty” to celebrate Republic Day as the accused did

Corruption accused Anil Deshmukh resigns from Home Minister post

The former Minister said he wished to distance himself from the title of a Home Minister while CBI inquiries were carried out against him.

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