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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
Landmark ruling: SC orders Sedition law to be kept in abeyance
Apex Court urges Centre and states to refrain from registering any FIRs invoking Section 124-A IPC; those already booked under the section can seek bail
Delhi Violence: Delhi HC issues notice in Gulfisha Fatima’s bail plea
Delhi HC seeks response from Delhi government on appeal challenging Trial Court’s order denying bail in the larger conspiracy case
Bombay HC directs Maha gov’t to withdraw pending criminal cases against farmers and social activists
They had been protesting CAA and other government policies; Aurangabad Bench of the HC directs State gov't to file affidavit and submit a report
Hindus as minority: Centre flip-flops on power to notify minority status
Centre now asks the Supreme Court for more time to discuss with state governments the power to notify minority status
Now, jail authorities deny GN Saibaba plastic water bottle!
First the NIA had denied late Fr. Stan Swamy a sipper in Taloja jail, now Nagpur Jail authorities deny the 90 percent physically disabled political dissenter a plastic bottle to drink water
Jahangirpuri violence: Delhi Court refuses bail to eight accused
Court observes that Police accompanied the illegal processions, hence the liability on the part of the concerned officials needs to be fixed
Cruel, diabolic, barbaric, gruesome and inhuman: Allahabad High Court on Lakhimpur Kheri massacre
Court made this observation while denying bail to four Lakhimpur Kheri accused; dismissed the bail pleas based on possibility of tampering of evidence or endangering witnesses
Delhi HC adjourns hearings in bail pleas of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam
Court grants one week for filing FIR and chargesheet against Imam in Aligarh
UP: Four reports of cops allegedly committing crimes against women!
Two of these instances of brutal violence and assault were against Dalit women, one against a woman from an OBC family
SC dismisses CPI-M’s Shaheen Bagh plea
Court says that it cannot issue orders in such matters, and asked the petitioners to approach the High Court
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