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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
Retired civil servants move SC; seek authoritative meaning of ‘hate speech’
The intervention has been filed in a petition that was filed by Firoz Iqbal Khan seeking stay on the broadcast of show “Bindaas Bol” on Sudarshan News
Stop filing chargesheet based on fabricated evidence, false confessions: PUCL
Filmmakers, and social activists Rahul Roy, Saba Dewan were questioned by Delhi Police for seven hours, during investigation into North East Delhi riots
Nine more former police officers dub Delhi violence investigation ‘flawed’
Real culprits of the violence belonging to majority community are likely to go scot free, says the letter
Why do top cops not abide by service conduct rules when online?
Dr Sandeep Mittal a Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer is upset at being unfollowed by the IPS Association after his right wing tones tweets
Centre halts razing of 48,000 shanties along railway tracks in Delhi
The Supreme Court had, on August 31 ordered removal of shanties, which would have rendered about 2.4 lakh people homeless
CJI reserves order: Medha Patkar’s plea for temporary release of convicts
The plea was filed against Bombay High Court’s order upholding the classification made by the HPC denying parole to convicts under special Acts like UAPA, MCOCA
Slums and judicial manoeuvring
Dunu Roy -
Have previous cases related to slums and ‘encroachment’ set the tone for how our courts view the issue?
No warrant, no due process: UP’s ‘Special Force’ to bend all rules!
Force will not need a warrant to arrest, conduct searches, as long as it is “sure about the crime”, meanwhile ‘probes’ into ‘love jihad’ continue
More activists named in riots case: Delhi Police getting desperate?
In a supplementary chargesheet, police have named a fresh set of activists, academics and politicians
Umar Khalid arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell
Likely to be charged under UAPA, was summoned for questioning on Saturday, asked to join the investigation on Sunday, and later arrested
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Rights
Abdul Sheikh Citizenship Case: Deportation stayed as Gauhati High Court Hears challenge to ex parte foreigner declaration, state to raise maintainability issue
Court allows preliminary objection while continuing stay on deportation; petitioner explains delay to challenge FT order through prolonged detention, lack of access to the detenue, financial constraints, and absence of legal aid
History
Bhagat Singh sent to gallows once again!
Repeated attempts by present day academics to whittle down the tradition followed and forged by young revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh are bound to fail; as history endures with the traditions laid by these very men
Gender and Sexuality
A Law of Identity, Passed Without Listening: Inside the Transgender Amendment Bill, 2026 and the crisis it has triggered
Framed as a measure of protection, the amendment shifts identity from self-determination to State approval, raising fears of exclusion, bureaucratic control, and the erosion of dignity recognised in constitutional jurisprudence
Rights
Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law
Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour
Labour
Telangana: Safeguard lakhs of Hamali workers, set by welfare board, citizens groups
Different sections of citizens in Telangana and organisations too have in a pithy letter to the Telangana Chief Minister urged the constitution of a Hamali Welfare Board to safeguard the interests of lakhs of Hamali Workers across the state, as per law and in consonance with the Congress Party Manifesto
Media
Delhi, Mumbai: Media organisations sharply criticise UNI eviction
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Editors’ Guild of India and the Mumbai Press club have sharply condemned the executive overreach that ordered the Delhi police to violently evict the staff of the UNI on March 20, 2026