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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
Against the country’s secular structure: Court denies bail to man accused of damaging Masjid
Considering the gravity of allegations, large-scale involvement of the applicant in the North East Delhi riots, court do not find it to be a fit case for grant of bail
Umar Khalid alleges forced solitary confinement by jail authorities
The activist alleged that his request for adequate security had been distorted to extreme proportions by jail authorities who confined him to a cell
GN Saibaba still denied parole, medicine, books, letters from family: AS Vasantha
Saibaba, is yet to get a letter and news printouts his wife Vasantha sent on Oct 1, but she has convinced him to not go on hunger strike for now a she fears for his health
Democracy dies when it’s streets fall silent: Activists on the right to protest
Arundhati Roy, Bezwada Wilson, NiveditaMenon, Nadeem Khan, Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, call for debate on policing, protests, role of mainstream media
Defamation case filed by MJ Akbar to continue before Special MP-MLA Court
The MP had filed a defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani, who was among many accusing him of sexual harassment
NAPM condemn police’s and administration’s handling of the Hathras incident
Nine activists visit Hathras, Uttar Pradesh to document the aggrieved family’s account of the series of events related to the Hathras crime.
Umar Khalid arrest: Court told Delhi Police that no person can be detained without being informed about the grounds of arrest
The court said in its order that Article 22 (1) of the Constitution stipulated that no police official can arrest an individual without informing the grounds of his arrest, and Article 22 of the Constitution guaranteed the fundamental right of protection against the arrest and detention.
My father was lynched on September 6, UP police have no updates: Mohhamad Sabir
Mohhamad Sabir has launched an online support campaign to seek justice for his father Aftab Alam, a taxi driver who was allegedly lynched for not chanting 'Jai Shree Ram'
Uddhav Thackeray withdraws consent; CBI can’t just swoop in any more
Is this an assertion of federal powers as enshrined in the Constitution, or political posturing designed to showcase how the Shiv Sena isn’t going to dance to the BJP’s tunes anymore?
Delhi riots: Prosecutors Association move Delhi HC against 11 Special Public Prosecutors appointment
The Prosecutors Welfare Association moved Delhi HC on October 21 challenging the appointment of SPP’s claiming that it was against the principles of fairness and impartiality, seeking direction to be issued to the Delhi Government to appoint independent Special PPs to conduct cases relating to the riots.
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Bhagat Singh sent to gallows once again!
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Gender and Sexuality
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Rights
Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law
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Labour
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Delhi, Mumbai: Media organisations sharply criticise UNI eviction
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