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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
Madras HC directs 1 lakh compensation for violation of ‘right to speedy trial’
The court directed Narcotics Bureau to compensate the accused saying, “it must pay for its lapse”
Consider issuing directions for implementing Manual Scavenging Rules: K’taka HC
The court also directed the government to consider directing authorities to ensure while appointing contractors that Rule 3 is incorporated in the contract for work order
SC admits CJP’s amendment petition including MP, HP in its Love Jihad plea
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The original petition has challenged the constitutionality of anti-conversion laws of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand
Relationship with 16-year-old girl not unusual, POCSO accused adult gets bail
The Himachal Pradesh HC noted that it was a consensual relationship, and the girl left her parents house voluntarily
I feel vindicated: Priya Ramani acquitted in MJ Akbar defamation case
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate held that women should be able to take legal recourse even after decades
Bombay HC grants 3 weeks anticipatory bail to Nikita Jacob in toolkit case
She has been charged with sedition, criminal conspiracy and to promote enmity between groups
Toolkit content does not incite violence, not seditious: Former SC Judge Deepak Gupta
Several legal experts also weighed in on the arrest of Disha Ravi in the Greta Thunberg toolkit matter that invoked a slew of serious charges
Sedition cannot be invoked to quieten the disquiet under pretence of muzzling miscreants: Delhi Court
The court granted bail to two accused who were charged with sedition for forwarding a misinformed post on their Facebook accounts
Delhi riots: Delhi HC grants bail to cab driver as witnesses did not mention his name
The court observed that the accused was not in the vicinity of the area where the alleged incident took place
DCW questions why Disha Ravi was not provided with lawyer of her choice in court
The Commission has taken suo moto cognizance of the case and has sought copy of FIR and questioned the Delhi cyber crime cell in the way the case is being handled
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