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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court said 23-year-old Faizan’s death after he was beaten and forced to sing the national anthem during the 2020 Delhi Riots was motivated by “religious bigotry” and constituted a “hate crime”. The high court observed the probe in this matter was “tardy,” “sketchy,” and “conveniently sparing” those persons who are suspected to be involved in the brutal assault while transferring the investigation to the CBI. The high court observed that far from preventing hate crimes, some police officials appeared to have indulged in “mob-vigilantism” and “mob-violence” against 23-y...
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By Ritika Jain Journalist Rajat Sharma has had it with the many fake ads on Facebook and Instagram made with AI voice clones impersonating him to peddle weight loss drugs and medication to cure type two diabetes. The IndiaTV News chairman and editor-in-chief filed a Public Interest Litigation or PIL in the Delhi High Court last month in May seeking to stop the proliferation of deepfakes on social media in India. The PIL relies on a BOOM fact-check which found viral videos of news anchors were fake and were overlaid with voice clones promoting a diabetes medicine. “Seeing videos depicting me en...
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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court observed that deepfake videos can cause irreparable harm to one’s personality while granting interim relief to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s national spokesperson and senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia by directing social media platforms ‘X’ and YouTube to take down posts, and make videos private that alleged he was “beaten up” by lawyers in a Noida court. The high court observed Bhatia would face “irreparable loss and injury” if the deepfake videos and tweets were allowed to remain in the public domain. The high court’s concern on Bhatia’s defamation plea is timely...
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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court said material placed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was sufficient to show that Arvind Kejriwal was involved—in his personal capacity as well—in the formulation of the now-scrapped state excise policy while dismissing the Delhi chief minister’s plea challenging his as illegal. Weeks before the nation goes to polls, the ED arrested Kejriwal on March 21 for his alleged role in the Delhi Liquor Policy scam. A Delhi Court on April 1 remanded the state chief minister to 14 days judicial custody. The high court dismissed Kejriwal’s submission that his arrest is p...
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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court on January 19 will likely decide on the Centre’s plea seeking a recall of its order permitting a woman to abort her pregnancy amid mental health concerns. The Centre challenged the high court’s January 4 order and sought protection for the unborn child. The Centre’s plea comes two weeks after the high court permitted a woman to abort her pregnancy after taking note of medical reports that diagnosed her as suffering from extreme trauma and depression because of her husband’s death. The woman, a 26-year-old, lost her husband in October 2023 barely seven months aft...
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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court ruled that the Delhi Police remand of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha was sustainable since the grounds for arrest were conveyed to him at the time of his arrest. The high court said there were no procedural infirmities while dismissing Purkayastha’s plea challenging the October 3 police remand. “That apart there is nothing placed on record to demonstrate that the timelines as averred in the petition are factually correct in nature or even to suggest otherwise,” the high court judgment read. Significantly, the high court further observed that the Supreme Co...
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By Ritika Jain The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice and directed the Delhi Police to respond to allegations that in the remand application, the probe agency apparently failed to disclose the grounds for arrest. "Today there is a Supreme Court judgment which is staring in the eye," Justice Tushar Gedela said referring to the verdict where the top court held that grounds of arrest must be communicated in writing to an accused. The high court’s direction came on a plea filed by NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human resources head Amit Chakravarthy on a plea challenging their arre...
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By Ritika Jain Popular social media page Humans of Bombay (HOB), which tells people’s stories, has sued its contemporary People of India (POI) for stealing its content and has demanded Rs. 5 crore in damages. Even as the Delhi High Court issued notice observing that prima facie “there is substantial imitation and in fact, in some cases, the photographs/images (published by POI) are identical or imitative”, the war between the storytellers took an interesting turn when photographer Brandon Stanton, best known for his page ‘Humans of New York’ (HONY) joined the fray. In its suit, HOB says People...
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By Ritika Jain The Delhi High Court on Monday observed the Centre’s policy to withdraw Rs. 2000 denomination banknotes came after its purpose for issuing them in the aftermath of the denomination of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 banknotes in November 2016 had been achieved. The Rs 2000 banknotes were issued to after the Centre’s denomination exercise to ensure an adequate supply of money to meet the day-to-day requirements of the people, the high court said. Six years later “the Government has now decided to withdraw Rs.2000 denomination banknotes from circulation which is not being used commonly,” it ...
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By Ritika Jain Delhi High Court today issued notice on a defamation suit filed by NGO Justice On Trial (JOT) seeking 10,000 crores in damages from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for airing the now-banned documentary “India: The Modi Question”. The NGO, represented by senior advocate Harish Salve, suggests that BBC—United Kingdom’s national broadcaster—“do not even have a fig leaf of journalistic neutrality and reporting of facts, but appear to be only with a view to casting a slur upon the reputation of the Indian State and its institutions, apart from the reputation of the Gujarat...
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