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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

MJ Akbar defamation case against Priya Ramani transferred to District and Sessions Judge

Advocate Rebecca John had spent three months arguing the case, the final arguments will now be placed before the new judge

Accused in Payal Tadvi case return to studies; Left organisations question the decision

Members of AIDWA and DYFI express great disappointment at the SC decision to allow the three accused in the Payal Tadvi institutional murder case to continue their education.

Allahabad HC slams ADG, DM for cremation of Hathras victim’s body

Daughter cremated against our wishes, victim’s family tells court. Allahabad HC asks DM if things would have been the same if the victim belonged to an affluent family  

Tablighi Jamaat case: Bandra Court discharges 12 foreign nationals 

Court notes that the Indonesian men didn’t disobey orders or negligently spread Covid1-19

MP HC drops NSA charges, grants bail to 4 Muslim youth

The Indore Bench passes order saying that the government had incorrectly utilised the law for baseless charges.

Hathras FIR goes missing from CBI website!

The CBI had lodged an FIR against 4 men under offences covered by the Indian Penal Code and SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for the alleged rape and murder of a Dalit woman on October 11, 2020, but took it off their official website yesterday.

Witnesses seem to be planted: Delhi HC

Court grants bail to man accused of being involved in the Tahir Hussain case in connection with the Delhi pogrom

Madras High Court directs TN government to consider CCTV protection laws

A PIL demanded that the state government frame CCTV footage protection laws to protect possible evidence for future cases.

Register ‘Zero FIR’ in case of the crime against women: MHA reminds states

Advisory comes in the wake of national outrage over the Hathras case, mentions ‘dying declarations’, and action against police failure 

Funeral or destruction of evidence: Why did the UP police light Hathras victim’s pyre?

Footage of cops surrounding the burning pyre shows how the victim's immediate family was shut out of the last rites 

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