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WhatsApp is updating its policy, is it time for India to update its laws as well?

WHAT IS WHATSAPP CHANGING IN ITS POLICY AND HOW WILL IT IMPACT USERS? The popular social media platform WhatsApp recently updated its privacy policies and notified its users of the same. The... Read more »

Exigency of transformation in the Constitution via equity

The Constitution of India plays a transformational role i.e., to do away with the vices, discrepancies, and injustices in the society. The Constitution of India has a major goal to attain social... Read more »

Recommendations of State Human Right Commission are legally enforceable, binding on government/authorities: Madras High Court

In a well-written, well-worded, well-analysed, well-reasoned, well-substantiated, well-articulated and well-concluded 517-page judgment titled Abdul Sathar vs The Principal Secretary to Government and 5 others in W.P. No. 41791 of 2006 delivered as... Read more »

Bail is a matter of right, jail an exception

This is a judicial principle that was laid down by the Supreme Court during a landmark judgement of State of Rajasthan v. Balchand alias Baliya in 1978. The judgement was based upon... Read more »

Prisoner’s right to vote: In Indian context

Imprisonment is not an end in itself, but a means to an end... Punishment should be means to improve, not the means to alienate... Read more »

Writ Jurisdiction U/A 226 may be exercised at pre-detention stage in case of potential threat to a person’s fundamental rights: Madras HC

In a recent, righteous and remarkable judgment titled D. Aswin Rao v. State & Ors. in W.P.No.1664 of 2021 and WMP No.1871 of 2021 delivered on February 4, 2021, the Madras High... Read more »

Criminal liability of a foreign citizen under Indian Penal Code

On 4th February, 2021, Delhi Police lodged an FIR against the creator of the ‘toolkit’ which contained the steps and instructions on how to back the farmers’ protests. Though, the FIR has... Read more »

Rail accident claim can’t be denied on account of boarding wrong train mistakenly: HC

Bombay High Court directs the Railways to pay Rs 8 lakh to a victim’s mother. Read more »

GRAND OPENING OF TIHAR HAAT AFTER COVID-19: A PHOTO STORY

Exclusive stores of Tihar Haat and Tihar Emporia which were closed during the nationwide lockdown due to spread of pandemic COVID-19 have now reopened. A wide range of products made by prison... Read more »

Social media, free expression and competition law

The situs of the agitation, as opposed to the issue, perhaps explains the kind of attention that is being showered on it. The absence of similar agitations in other parts of the... Read more »
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