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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
Jharkhand: Court convicts 10 in mob lynching case, sentence to be pronounced on July 5
Conviction comes 4 years after Tabrez Ansari, a 22-year-old Muslim man, was tied to an electricity pole, assaulted, and made to shout religious slogans
Karnataka HC: Proceedings against Pramod Muthalik for delivering offensive statement quashed
The Bench noted lack of recording of independent eyewitness statements, no data to substantiate that accused made inflammatory statements as reasons
Eid-al-Azha: Jurisprudence on animal sacrifice, maintaining balance between customs & harmony
Even as the Courts have refused to entertain pleas on animal sacrifice, how necessary is it that we inclusively question its relevance in today’s world?
11 arrests in Nashik for killing man, brutally assaulting another for ‘transporting beef’
Police officers said members of a cow vigilante group assaulted the two men with iron rods and wooden sticks near Igatpuri.
Long way to go before promises are kept to India’s LGBTQIA+ communities
The legal win for decriminalising homosexuality in India is just the beginning of the ongoing struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights.
UP: 2 Dalit Undertrials ‘Commit Suicide’ in Sultanpur Jail Premises, Families Allege Foul Play
The families have accused the police of torturing their sons to death.
Curb prison suicides: NHRC advisory to Union, States
Jail authorities were asked to do regular check on bed sheets and blankets of inmates to ensure that these are not used for suicide attempts.
The long & derailed course of justice: Bhima-Koregaon case
Though five years have passed, and two major investigations have revealed gross lapses in the investigation, the trial is not underway and six of the 16 languish in jail, one is under house arrest
Mumbai court reiterates SC stand that sex work is not illegal; paves way for dignity of sex workers
The apex court continues to monitor protection of rights of sex workers and this Sessions Court is right following the top court’s foot steps.
Why the case for same-sex adoptions is both moral and legal
After de-criminalising homosexuality finally in 2018, with the Navtej Singh Johar, the Indian Courts are now being compelled to legalise marriage and adoption
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