This is a representational image (Pic credit: Lexica) NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court on Thursday warned Wikipedia it will block the website if it doesn’t comply with India’s laws and issued a contempt of court notice.HC took a strong view of the open-source platform’s failure to furnish details as per earlier orders on subscribers who…
NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday took suo motu cognizance of of the violent protests in Badlapur after the sexual assault of two kindergarten students in Thane district, Live Law reported.The matter is scheduled to be heard on August 22.The National Human Rights Commission On Tuesday took suo motu cognizance of the incident…
NEW DELHI: The Karnataka high court on Monday provided relief to Siddaramaiah in the alleged Muda scam saying that no proceedings shall be conducted before the special court against Karnataka CM till his plea against the state governor is heard. The Congress leader had filed a plea challenging governor Thaawarchand Gehlot’s order to prosecute him…
CHANDIGARH: The controversial head of Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) Sirsa, Gurmeet Ram Rahim, has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking directions to grant him a 21-day furlough so that he can carry out “welfare activities” outside the jail during this period. The DSS head has submitted that an application for furlough has already…
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court acquitted on Tuesday Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others in a 22-year-old case involving the murder of his then manager Ranjit Singh, citing “a tainted and sketchy investigation” and presentation of evidence “unworthy of credence”. A special CBI court in…
NEW DELHI: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp LLC told Delhi HC on Thursday that it can’t function if forced to break encryption, as required under the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.Any mandate to store messages will require the platform to keep “millions and millions” of these, the platform’s counsel…
CHENNAI: DMK has moved the Madras HC challenging the validity of ECI rules mandating it to approach only the SC for appeals against the commission’s order regarding pre-certification of poll advertisements.Admitting the plea, the bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala and Justice Sathya Narayana Prasad directed the poll body to respond by April 17.The…
KOLKATA: Even if one affidavit was found to be accurate, it would be a matter of shame, Calcutta HC remarked Thursday, expressing deep concern over the contents of affidavits presented before it during a hearing on a PIL seeking an independent investigation into the Sandeshkhali sexual harassment allegations.A division bench comprising Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam…
INDORE: Madhya Pradesh high court has observed that a wife can be debarred from maintenance on the basis of adultery only if she is “living in adultery at or around the time of filing application”.Justice Prakash Chandra Gupta of HC‘s Indore bench made the observation while dismissing a revision petition filed by a man against…
