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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

UP: Father of gang-rape survivor dies in alleged accident

Alleging the accident to be a murder, family and members demonstrated on the Kanpur-Sagar highway demanding swift action against the accused.

Anti-CAA protests: Allahabad HC grants bail to student activist

 The Single-judge Bench observed that the State’s counter affidavit against him does not mention any unsocial and unlawful activity

Uttarakhand HC raises concern over “medieval age” condition of prisons, calls for report

The court observed that it was important to wean away undertrials from criminal life and to reform convicts

SC to examine whether gold smuggling is terrorist act under UAPA

Kerala High Court had held in February that gold smuggling with a mere intent of illegal profit cannot be a terrorist act

Gujarat HC suggests the State to prohibit social exclusion of menstruating women

The court has proposed a set of directions that the Government should follow to end menstruation taboo, affecting women’s mental and fundamental rights

Delhi HC slams Centre for ‘unsatisfactory response’ to plea seeking appointing members to NCM

The Court asked the Centre to file another affidavit giving proper timelines for appointment of the Commission that is functioning with a lone member

SC allows States to be impleaded in plea seeking protection of rights of migrant children

The apex court was hearing a plea filed by a lawyer highlighting that during the pandemic, children of migrant workers have been pushed into child labour, and steps need to be taken for their access to education and health care

Delhi Violence: Court grants bail to two accused of being present at crime scene

The district court observed that they lived in the vicinity of the crime scene, and hence their presence was “but natural”

Madras HC allows display boards that mention caste names

Says that every individual has the freedom and choice to put up display boards as long as it is not offensive or obscene

Surat Court acquits 122 alleged SIMI members after 20 years! 

They were arrested in December 2001 and booked under UAPA, for allegedly being part of Students’ Islamic Movement of India

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