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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
SC seeks Centre’s response to petitions challenging CAA
States of Assam and Tripura to file separate responses; matter to be heard on October 31
Gyanvapi case: Court dismisses mosque committee’s plea challenging maintainability of suit
Court finds suit by Hindu petitioners is not barred by the Places of Worship Act
Gyanvapi case: Judgment on suit maintainability expected today
Heavy police deployment to maintain law and order
Server and mobile phones of top leadership cloned, data taken: Oxfam India on IT raids
Offices of Oxfam India, CPR and IPSMF had been raided on September 7 in connection with alleged illegal funding of political parties
SC to hear pleas challenging the Place of Worship Act on October 11
Centre to file response in two weeks; Intervention Application of the Royal Family of Kashi, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind and others allowed
SC grants journalist Siddique Kappan bail in Hathras conspiracy case
Arrested under UAPA, Siddique Kappan has been directed to remain in Delhi for the next six weeks before being allowed to leave for Kerela
Supreme Court directs Centre to frame policy on jobs for transgender persons
Centre to form policy to provide reasonable accommodation to transgender people in employment in the establishments within three months under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019
Bilkis Bano case: SC orders copies of impleading petition to be given to convicts, State of Gujarat
Petitions filed by Subhashini Ali, Revathi Laul and Prof. Roop Rekha Verma, and another by Mahua Moitra; case adjourned for three weeks
SC questions Centre’s decision to just leave minor Rohingya girl at the Myanmar border
The girl’s parents are in Bangladesh and want her back; an NGO has filed application to foster her till she is reunited with her family
Madhya Pradesh: 13-year-old Dalit rape survivor allegedly beaten by police
Girl’s family alleges police forcibly kept the girl overnight at the police station where she was kicked and beaten with belts to pressure her to change her statement
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