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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
Supreme Court notice to Centre, Tripura gov’t on plea seeking SIT probe
FIRs not registered, not a single arrest, but 41a notices sent to lawyers, UAPA against journalists, Prashant Bhushan tells the Supreme Court
Man “from same community arrested” for allegedly killing Dalit family: UP Police
On Saturday, police had suspended two of its personnel for allegedly “pressuring the Dalit family compromise with the upper-caste family in a dispute linked to grazing land”
Did not interrogate Nambi Narayanan: RB Sreekumar
The retired cop has been accused of torturing a former ISRO scientist and other accused during interrogation in a case of alleged espionage
Rajasthan HC endorses police order to bar worship areas on gov’t premises
Bench dismisses a PIL saying police are abiding by the state’s secular laws
An ‘encounter’ in UP: Identical injuries, allegations of ‘cow slaughter’, Muslim daily wagers in jail?
Delhi State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist), writes to Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister asking for impartial inquiry into the alleged “encounter”
Uttar Pradesh: 4 of Dalit family masacred in Prayagraj
Protest ensue, 2 cops suspended; locals accuse police negligence as family had approached cops earlier to lodge an FIR but were allegedly rebuffed
Zakia Jafri SLP: SIT claims actions of officers not criminal, dereliction of duty maybe
Through the hearing on November 25, SIT continued to insist that the mandate of the Supreme Court in 2009 was clear that the SIT should look into the complaint of Zakia Jafri pursuant to the Gulberg Society trial case only and hence, the complaint was to be treated as additional material.
It is mayhem there… Supreme Court orders not being followed, Kapil Sibal tells SC
All India Trinamool Congress alleged that Supreme Court orders for free and fair municipal elections in Tripura were violated and people were not allowed to vote
Supreme Court issues notice in plea challenging Rakesh Asthana’s appointment as Delhi CP
SC has sought replies from Centre, Rakesh Asthana on the plea by an NGO against his appointment as Delhi Police Commissioner
Conversion will not change caste of a person: Madras HC
Judgment addresses matter of issuance of certificates in case of inter-caste marriage, and makes observations about impact on caste-based reservations
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