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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

Yati Narsinghanand under House Arrest after declaring intention to visit Delhi’s Jama Masjid

Serial Hate Offender Narsinghanand was supposed to visit Jama Masjid on Friday to show support for Nupur Sharma

Provable connection between police and people who planted false evidence against Bhima-Koregaon accused: SentinelOne

Wired reports that Sentinel One has unearthed a connection between cops who arrested the accused and Modified Elephant, a hacking campaign that allegedly planted evidence on the devices of activists

Demolitions by the playbook, unprecedented even in pre-independence India: Senior Counsel to SC in Bulldozer Injustice case

SC orders no ‘out of turn demolitions’ to take place until next hearing date i.e. June 21

Delhi HC dismisses Brinda Karat’s plea seeking FIR against BJP Leaders for alleged Hate Speech

Court rejected the plea filed against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for their 2020 hate speech

Ranchi Violence: Principal Secretary demands explanation from police for hoardings with images of alleged rioters

Jharkhand Police had put up these hoardings in popular public places, and then taken them down; now Allahabad police have released images

Allahabad’s Nagrik Samaj demands justice for illegal demolition victims

The citizen’s group raised their voice against officials for giving in to a "police raj"

SC to hear urgent petitions against UP demolitions today

Court to hear two separate intervention applications filed by Jamiat-Ulema-i-Hind, seeking a stay on the spate of demolitions in Saharanpur, Prayagraj, and Kanpur

Ranchi violence: Images of alleged rioters released, then taken down by Jharkhand Police

Earlier the governor of the state had given the go ahead to make public identities of the alleged rioters

Gyanvapi case: VVSS demands FIR against mosque authorities

Plea alleging AIM allegedly damaged structure of temple inside mosque premises will be heard on June 23

Friday protests: More people booked for unlawful assembly

Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Bengaluru together report 17 arrests for protesting without permission

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