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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
Policing in the times of corona has many tones, depending on who you are
Delhi MP gets away with a ‘scolding’ for spreading rumours, tweeting fake video, but eminent intellectuals, activists, journalists must face the brunt of the law
UN raises concerns over exploitative provisions of UAPA
Sites labelling of people as terrorists, reversal of burden of proof, and prolonged pre-trial detention as inconsistent with international Human Rights and legal standards
Maharashtra gov’t to release 3,500 prisoners from Thane district
The government has announced that it will be releasing 17,000 inmates to decongest prisons in the state
U’khand HC: Children with no internet access cannot be forced to pay tuition fee
Unaided private schools in the state were charging fees and conducting online classes for KG level as well
Gujarat HC gives directions on affordable COVID19 treatment and for starving, helpless migrants
Guj HC goes big, takes cognizance of starving migrants, asks state to regulate fee structure of pvt hospitals
K’taka HC asks state to immediately take decision on payment of fares of migrants
In the precise words of the court, “no one should be deprived of an opportunity to go back to his own State only for the reason that he has no capacity to pay for the transport”
Delhi HC again adjourns petition about police accountability for ‘indiscriminate’ arrests: Justice delayed?
Brinda Karat’s petition urging transparency in arrests and detentions pushed to June 16
Tablighi Jamaat members still under the scanner
Pleas in courts, passport seizures, regime continues to keep a close watch
Ahmedabad violence: Court pulls up cops for charging accused under Sec 307
The magistrate also demanded to know why there was a delay of five days in presenting the accused before a court
Bom HC raps Mumbai Police for using quarantine as preventive detention
Mumbai’s CITU President was picked up from a protest site and kept in quarantine for 14 days without informing him of his COVID19 test results, which came negative
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