Source – financialexpress.com At a time when governments—at the Centre and the states—are looking at tracking even social media messages, the Bombay High Court has done well to reiterate an individual’s right to privacy and to rule that even tapping of phones that has been signed off by government officials is unlawful if it doesn’t
Source – The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that after Diwali break it would hear petitions against a Bombay High Court order quashing Coastal Regulation Zone clearances given to Mumbai’s civic body for a coastal road project, PTI reported. In July, the High Court had said an environmental clearance would be required for the Rs
Source – indiatoday.in Centre asked Facebook Inc on Tuesday to help it decrypt private messages on its network, citing national security requirements in a court hearing on privacy rights on social media platforms. Attorney General KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court that it was the responsibility of social media companies to share data wherever there
Source – indiatoday.in Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram is all set to move the Delhi High Court, seeking bail from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody. While the petition has been finalised, the decision on when to move is yet to be taken. It comes hours after Chidambaram was granted bail by the Supreme Court in
Source – telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Friday an appeal of the Gujarat High Court Advocates’ Association seeking a directive to the Centre to implement the collegium’s decision to elevate Justice Akil Kureshi, a Bombay High Court judge, as Chief Justice of Tripura High Court. The collegium, headed by Chief Justice
Source – livemint.com NEW DELHI : The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that the entire process of finalising the laws on regulating social media will be completed by January 2020, while seeking three months more time for notifying the final revised rules in accordance with law. The government told the top court that after
Source – thehindu.com A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court, led by Justice R. Banumathi, will pronounce on October 22 its decision on the former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s petition for regular bail in the CBI part of the INX Media case. The court had heard extensive arguments from Mr. Chidambaram’s lawyers and Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta,
Source – qz.com On Oct. 18, the US Supreme Court agreed to review a case about the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s leadership structure, the outcome of which threatens to unravel nearly a decade of work by the federal watchdog created in 2010. And, strangely, the agency—under director Kathy Kraninger, picked by Donald Trump and barely
Source – thewire.in As a principle, I do not go public on a case I have argued until the final decision. I do not want to break that rule over the media controversy about my tearing a map which I argued should not be referred to because it was not part of the record which
Source – thehindubusinessline.com For Ajit Krishnan, a software professional, the battle was between his heart and his mind. His 10 year-old son loves bursting crackers but his passion for the environment came in the way of satisfying his son’s wish. That his neighbours in Chennai with kids in the same age group have no such
