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After protesters, including SKM, demanded retraction, Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ reportedly clarified he meant no one should take law & order into own hands.

Proscribing entirely an individual citizens’ right to privacy and control over personal data, the ‘deemed consent’ provisions along with other provisions of the Bill weaponise the state to be the ultimate arbiter

The draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which was released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on November 18 to invite public comments, has a provision which proposes to amend the Right To Information Act 2005.

Extensive arguments made by senior counsel Mihir Desai assisted by Devyani Kulkarni before the Diwali vacation and thereafter on the courts re-opening extensively dealt with these flaws.

Among the 16 accused, Teltumbde’s bail is the first bail that has been granted on merits. The same has been stayed for a week, upon NIA’s request to allow time to appeal before apex court.

An amendment to the CrPC to include procedure to be followed while seizing electronic devices has become germane as investigating officers while making arrests tend to seize such devices, without any legal sanction leading to impinging upon constitutional rights of the accused

The activist while being granted his request for house arrest, has been imposed with restrictions like no use of mobile phones, no contact with outside world and surveillance of his partner’s phone as well as the premises, whenever need be

Formalities of release of the human rights activist, jailed in Mumbai’s Taloja prison, are “still under process,” said his lawyer.

Even as India through Solicitor General Tushar Mehta staunchly defended these laws, several member states questioned India's track record on human rights

The report suggests that in 2021 a total of 1414 citizenship certificates have been granted as per CAA provisions; the 2019 amendment invoked