Supreme Court of India has issued notice to the Gujarat government in a plea filed by Patel-patidar leader Hardik Patel challenging the December 1 order of Gujarat High Court refusing to drop sedition charges against him.High Court had dropped the...
Continue reading
Experts & Views
Sanskriti SchoolUnion of India and Sanskriti School in Delhi have approached the Supreme Court of India against November 6 judgment of Delhi High Court by which it had quashed the 60% quota reserved in Sanskriti School for children of Group-A...
Continue reading
The agreed text draft of the outcome document of the WSIS+10 Review has been released. The agreed text is a product of the final negotiations between Member States over the past few days. This draft will be adopted at the...
Continue reading
December 14, 2015 · 8:34 am On the SpicyIP blog, Thomas J. Vallianeth has a response to my previous short piece, pointing out plagiarism in some of the Supreme Court’s important constitutional judgments. Thomas writes:“Gautam in his piece suggests that...
Continue reading
Supreme Court of India has dismissed a public interest litigation petition which sought a direction from the Court to enforce the directions of the Court in Lalita Kumari v. Government of Uttar Pradesh & Ors : (2014) 2 SCC 1....
Continue reading
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the authorities not to register any diesel vehicles in the national capital ailing with pollution, till January 6, when it shall next hear the matter. It has also directed the government to take a...
Continue reading
Supreme Court of India has issued notice to Nestle in an SLP to appeal filed by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) against the orders of Bombay High Court which had green signal to Maggi. Nestle had stopped...
Continue reading
This past year has seen a lot of discussion on enhancing ICANN accountability, especially in the context of the IANA Transition. The Cross Community Working Group on Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) has been working on various proposals, which were developed to propose...
Continue reading
Supreme Court of India has refused to entertain a public interest litigation petition seeking constitution of an inquiry committee to inquire into certain allegations against Justice C.S. Karnan, a sitting judge of the Madras High Court.The Petitioner was represented by...
Continue reading
by sflc_admin | December 11, 2015‘What are people’s rights in the digital world? – Moving towards a digital social contract’ (Bengaluru, 4-5 December, 2015)SFLC.in participated in a 2 day workshop organized by IT for Change in Bengaluru on the...
Continue reading
©Republished under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Licence
by sflc_admin | December 11, 2015The Telecom regulatory Authority of India has issued a Consultation Paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services on November 9, 2015 and invited public comments to be sent by December 30, 2015. The paper...
Continue reading
©Republished under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Licence
Letters Patent of 1865 to establish Bombay High CourtThe original names of Bombay, Calcutta High Courts may soon be a part of the history. Answering to a question asked in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of Law and Justice DV...
Continue reading
Salman KhanBombay High Court has acquitted Salman Khan of all the charges in the 2002-hit and run case. Hearing the appeal, Justice AR Joshi who dictated the order in an open court, observed that the “prosecution failed to establish the...
Continue reading
This morning, the Supreme Court upheld the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act amendments, which imposed educational, debt and property-based restrictions upon the right to contest Panchayat elections. On this blog, we have argued in detail that the Act was unconstitutional, and...
Continue reading
by sflc_admin | December 10, 2015A record of instances of Internet censorship in India between 2012 and 2015 is depicted in the info-graphic below; details of these can be accessed here. First published here.Original author: sflc_admin...
Continue reading
©Republished under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Licence