Election & Voting Processes Stand Threatened By Social Media Manipulation, Says Supreme Court

Election and voting processes stand threatened by social media manipulation, the Supreme Court remarked in the judgment delivered on Thursday in Facebook vs. Delhi Assembly case.Entities like Facebook have to remain accountable to those who entrust them with such power. While Facebook has played a crucial role in enabling free speech by providing a voice to the voiceless and a means to...

Cognizance Of Bhima Koregaon Chargesheet Vitiated As Pune Judge Wasn't Special Judge Under NIA Act? Bombay High Court To Examine

The Court records showed that the Pune Judge who took cognizance was not Special Judge under NIA Act

[Facebook vs Delhi Assembly] Assembly's Function Not Confined To Legislation; Can Have Inquisitorial Role : Supreme Court

The Court also ruled that Assembly can summon non-members.

Supreme Court Reserves Judgement On Appeals Against Gujarat HC Judgment Striking Down 97th Constitution Amendment On Cooperative Societies

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement in the appeals filed by the Union of India challenging Gujarat High Court's judgment striking down certain provisions of the 97th Constitutional amendment relating to Cooperative Societies. .The Gujarat High Court had quashed the amendment for no recourse being taken to Article 368(2) of the Constitution providing for ratification by...

"Live-Streaming Only Answer To Adjournment-Seeking Antics, So Society At Large Can See The Cause Of Pendency": Justice Chandrachud

Justice DY Chandrachud on Thursday remarked that the only answer to the adjournment-seeking antics is live-streaming of cases so that the society at large can see who is taking time and how matters get adjourned.The bench of Justices Chandrachud and MR Shah was considering a 2018 SLP when it was met with a request for adjournment on behalf of the petitioner. The junior counsel told the bench...

'Judicial System Exists For Common Man': Supreme Court Emphasizes The Need To Write Short & Clear Judgments & Restrict Time For Oral Submissions

In its postscript to the 182 paged judgment refusing to quash Delhi Assembly's summons To Facebook India Head In Delhi Riots Enquiry, the Supreme Court emphasized the need to restrict the time period for oral submissions by lawyers and to have 'more crisp, clear and precise' judgments which litigants can understand."The purpose of our post script is only to start a discussion among the...

Facebook Can't Disrupt India's 'Unity In Diversity' Claiming Ignorance Or Lack Of Pivotal Role : Supreme Court

"The role played by Facebook is more active and not as innocuous as is often presented when dealing with third party content", the Court said.

Striving To Comply; Reserves Right To Challenge IT Rules : Twitter To Delhi High Court

Twitter has informed the Delhi High Court that it will file its first Compliance Report consistent with the 2021 Rules no later than on 11th July 2021, The first compliance report will be covering the period 26th May 2021 to 25th June 2021. Twitter has further submitted that, while it is striving to comply with the 2021 Rules, it reserves its right to challenge the...

'Important' : Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Affidavit In Challenge To Provisions On Restitution Of Conjugal Rights

While adjourning the hearing to July 22, Supreme Court on Thursday granted two weeks time to the Union of India to file its counter affidavit in the plea filed challenging the provisions dealing with restitution of conjugal rights.A bench comprising Justice RF Nariman, Justice KM Joseph and Justice BR Gavai adjourned the matter for two weeks after ASG Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Union...

'Delhi Can Ill-Afford Another Riots; Role Of Facebook Must Be Looked Into': Supreme Court Upholds Delhi Assembly Summons

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to quash the summons issued to Facebook India Managing Director Ajit Mohan by the Peace and Harmony committee of the Delhi Assembly Committee seeking his appearance in an enquiry related to Delhi Riots."The capital of the country can ill-afford any repetition of the occurrence and thus, the role of Facebook in this context must be looked into...

Can Anyone Write Anything To Destroy Some One's Reputation?: Delhi High Court To Saket Gokhale In Defamation Suit By Lakshmi Puri

The Delhi High Court today lashed out at RTI activist Saket Gokhale for allegedly defamatory tweets against the former Indian Assistant Secretary General at the UN, Lakshmi Puri, noting that Gokhale of his own admission had not approached any authorities before putting out the tweets.The tweets in question allegedly not only raised queries about Puri and her husband's sources of income, they...

Supreme Court To Hear Amazon-Future-Reliance Case On July 20

The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned to July 20th the hearing of the petition filed by Amazon challenging an order dated March 22 passed by a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court staying a single-judge order which had upheld the Emergency Award passed by a Singapore Tribunal halting the Reliance-Future deal. A bench comprising Justices RF Nariman, Justice KM Joseph...