According to a right to information (RTI) query filed by Old
City-based activist Kareem Ansari, about 5,126 cases are pending with the Telangana
State Information Commission since April this year.
TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
TAKE ACTION AGAINST PEOPLE WHO SHARED THE LINK FOR THE BLUE WHALE GAME
The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court ordered the Tamil
Nadu home secretary and DGP to take serious action against people who shared
the link for the `Blue Whale' game that drives children and youth to take up
dangerous tasks, including suicide. It also ordered the central government to
file a report on the steps that have been taken to remove the link to the
online game from social networking sites.
TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER
SUPREME COURT ASKED SOCIAL MEDIA GIANTS TO GIVE DETAILS ON COMPLAINTS AGAINST CHILD PORN
The Supreme
Court directed Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, Microsoft and Yahoo to come up with
the number of complaints they received from India in the last two years for
allowing obscene material like child pornography and rape videos to be
circulated through their platforms and action taken by them.
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WHY EXCLUDED WOMEN FROM THE OPEN JAIL FACILITY: DELHI HIGH COURT TO DELHI GOVERNMENT
The Delhi High Court sought responses from the Delhi
government, the lieutenant governor and the director general of prisons on a
PIL filed by former legal advisor of Tihar, Sunil Gupta, seeking direction to
extend the benefit of semi-open and open prison to women, and also asked why
you are denying this to women prisoners.
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TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER
Monday, 4 September 2017
EXAMINE IF PRIVATE MESSAGES ADMISSIBLE AS EVIDENCE: DELHI COURT HIGH
Following
the Supreme Court ruling declaring privacy as a fundamental right, , the Delhi
High Court asked if messages sent on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) can be treated
as evidence, and issued notice to the Centre and ED to examine whether these
private messages would be admissible as evidence. The Court made this statement
while hearing a plea by meat exporter and businessman Moin Qureshi, who were
arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in money laundering case.
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COURTS WON’T INTERFERE IN DETENTION ORDERS ISSUED BY POLICE FOR PUBLIC GOOD: HYDERABAD HIGH COURT
Hyderabad
High Court said that even the courts would not interfere in cases challenging
the detention orders issued by the police authorities against criminals, who
steal mobile phones in public places, and dismissed the petition of a father of
a detenu, who filed habeas corpus petition before the High Court seeking
directions to the police authorities to produce his son before the court and
for setting him free from detention.
INDIAN
EXPRESS NEWSPAPER
Friday, 1 September 2017
MEDICAL BOARDS PROPOSED TO HEAR ABORTION PLEAS’
The
Centre informed the Supreme Court that it has written to States and Union
Territories about the court’s suggestion to appoint permanent medical boards to
provide women, especially rape survivors, urgent access to medical care and to
consider their requests for abortion.
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