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Delhi High Court Orders Aniruddha Malpani To Take Down Prima Facie Defamatory Tweets Against Coding Unicorn WhiteHat Jr
A day after ordering in favour of WhiteHatJr in its defamation suit against Pradeep Poonia, the Delhi High Court today ordered yet another Twitter user, Aniruddha Malpani to take down some specific 'deprecatory, defamatory' tweets against WhiteHat Jr – a platform teaching coding to children. The court issued notice and summons on WhiteHat's plea and posted the matter for further...
Ramani's Tweets Per Se Defamatory, Tarnished Akbar's Reputation, Geeta Luthra Argues
Before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Kumar Pandey, Senior Advocate Geeta Luthra started her final arguments afresh today on behalf of MJ Akbar in his criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani. While addressing the court, Ms Luthra submitted that Priya Ramani's tweets, which were made without any care and caution, tarnished Akbar's...
TRP Scam : Karnataka High Court To Pass Order Tomorrow On Anticipatory Bail Plea Of Republic TV COO
The Karnataka High Court will on Wednesday pass its order on the anticipatory bail application filed by Chief Operating Officer Priya Mukherjee of ARG Outlier Media Private Ltd which runs RepublicTV & R Bharat channels. A single bench of Justice H P Sandesh will be passing the order. Mukherjee has sought transit bail as she is apprehending arrest in the Fake Television...
Centre Decides To Block 43 More Mobile Apps Citing Security Concerns
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday blocked 43 mobile apps, mostly Chinese, citing threat to security of state. The Ministry has decided to invoked powers under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, read with the relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public)...
"Just Because They Are Law Students We Cannot Bypass Law": Karnataka High Court Dismisses Plea Against KSLU's Decision To Hold Semester Exam
Observing that "just because they are law students, from our fraternity, we cannot bypass the law on Public Interest Litigation (PIL)", the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by two Law Students, challenging the circular issued by Karnataka State Law University (KSLU) in so far as they impose an examination on the intermediate semester law students, for the...
Bar Council Cannot Suspend Licence To Practice While Referring Complaint Against Lawyer To Disciplinary Committee: Punjab & Haryana HC
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed a resolution passed by Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana suspending the licence of practice of a lawyer who allegedly posted derogatory comments in Facebook about the judiciary and lawyers.The Court held that the the provisions of the Advocates Act and the BCI Rules do not bestow power on the State Bar Council to suspend the licence to practice of...
Delhi High Court Gives Liberty To Sameet Thakkar & TV Today Network To Seek Clarification From Single Bench On Order To Take Down Tweets
A division bench of the Delhi High Court has given liberty to Sameet Thakkar and TV Today Network to approach the single bench seeking clarifications on whether the 29 sets of URLs taken down by Twitter are the tweets which are the subject matter of the proceedings in the defamation suit filed by TV Today Network against Thakkar.Accordingly, a division bench of Justices Hima Kohli and...
Inadequate Infrastructure For Revenue Courts In UP: Allahabad High Court Seeks Chief Secretary's Response
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday asked the State Chief Secretary to file an affidavit indicating the steps taken by the UP Government to provide necessary infrastructure to Revenue Courts in the state. "We deem it appropriate to direct the Chief, Secretary of the State of Uttar Pradesh to respond to the contents of the petition and further to acquaint the court about the programmes...
Delhi HC Directs Telegram To Disable Channels Providing Allen Career Institute's Copyrighted Study Material/Lectures
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (18th November) passed an ad interim order against Telegram Mobile Internet application (and defendant nos. 2 to 5), directing them to take down/disable the channels providing 'Allen Career Institute's copyrighted study material/lectures in breach of Plaintiff's copyright..A Single Judge bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher provided Telegram, a list...
Use Of Term "Gomatha" For Beef In Cookery Show Likely To Hurt Religious Feelings Of Hindus: Kerala HC Precludes Rehana Fathima From Using Social Media
The Kerala High Court has observed that use of term "Gomatha" as a synonym for meat in a cookery show is prima facie likely to hurt the religious feelings of Hindus, who worship cow as a deity. Holding thus, a Single Bench of Justice Sunil Thomas imposed strictures on activist Rehana Fatima who had uploaded a video of a cookery show on social media in which she was cooking...
Allowing Videos/Photos Of Rape Victims To Remain On Social Media Is Violative Of Their Fundamental Right To Privacy: Orissa HC Moots Statutory Recognition Of 'Right To Be Forgotten'
Emphasizing the need for statutory recognition of 'right to be forgotten', the Orissa High Court observed that allowing objectionable photos and videos of rape victims to remain on a social media platform is a violation of their right to privacy. Presently, there is no statute in India which provides for the right to be forgotten/getting the photos erased from the server of the social...
Statue Of Maharana Pratap On The 'Tiraha/Round About': Allahabad High Court Dismisses Plea Alleging Contempt Of SC's Order
While observing that "a round about public Tiraha" does not fall within public road, pavements, sideways and any other public utility place, the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday (10th November) dismissed a petition alleging contempt of the Supreme Court order.The Bench of Justice Pankaj Bhatia was hearing an application filed alleging non-compliance of the directions of the Supreme Court...