#KashmirLockdown: Can there be a prohibition on communication of all sorts on Kashmir?, Sr. Adv. Menaka Guruswamy.
#KashmirLockdown: There is a serious situation there. They might be apprehending law and order, says Mishra J.
Attorney, how long are you going to continue with this? Justice Arun Mishra to AG KK Venugopal.
#KashmirLockdown: AG KK Venugopal says Union govt has taken into consideration all relevant aspects. Says it took 3 months to tackle a similar situation in 2016.
But in this case it might be settled in a few days but it depends on the fact situation, says KK Venugopal
#Kashmir: Situation is dynamic and changing every day. We are reviewing the situation and lifting restrictions step by step, says Attorney General KK Venugopal to Supreme Court.
#Kashmir: It is in our interest and interest of Union govt and State that peace is restored, says AG KK Venugopal.
#Kashmir: Hospitals, schools and police stations, that is all I ask, submits Menaka Guruswamy.
We have to give them (Govt) some time too. It is a serious situation, says Justice MR Shah.
#Kashmir: We are committed to ensuring least human rights violations take place, AG KK Venugopal.
So far not even a single loss of life, Centre tells Supreme Court.
#Kashmir: Decisions are taken district wise depending on situation in each district, says Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.
#Kashmir: Shall we come back in 2 weeks?, asks Menaka Guruswamy.
Why should we keep it pending?, Justice MR Shah.
They cannot say no accountability. If their intention is to make Kashmiris full citizens, then they cant restrict them totally, Menaka Guruswamy.
#Kashmir: Bench acceeds to request of Menaka Guruswamy to keep petition by @tehseenp pending. Will be listed after two weeks.
Supreme Court hears plea pertaining to appointment of information commissioners.
Bench: Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi
Adv Prashant Bhushan: this is regarding appointment to information commissions. It has been 10 months from the last order. There are so many orders asking to appoint and the pendency is just skyrocketing. The RTI is being destroyed by not appointing information commissioners.
Bhushan: earlier what they had done is they air dropped one person, a journalist who was singing praises of the government and without any qualifications he was air dropped.
Justice Kant: sometimes people don’t apply. We can’t doubt everything. We exercise suo moto powers in case of senior designations because people don’t apply.
Supreme Court to shortly hear the issue concerning stray dogs and the Pan India policy on Animal Birth control rules implementation #SupremeCourt
Sr Adv Sidharth Luthra: One matter has come from High court. All matters are here
Justice Vikram Nath: we do not have compliance affidavit by any of the states.
Adv: MCD (Delhi) has filed it, Telangana, West Bengal.. also
Luthra: We have not been supplied
SC: only three compliance affidavits are filed but not on record. They are Telangana, WB and MCD. Notices was issued to all states and UTs. Let all be present before this court on 10:30 am next Monday along with explanation as to why not filed and no representation also here from the three mentioned here.
Delhi High Court heard the submissions of intervenor Broadband India Forum in the copyright suit filed by ANI against OpenAI.
Senior Advocate Arvind Datar is appearing for Broadband India Forum.
The matter is being heard by Justice Amit Bansal.
Datar - LLM can access a large amount of information and create a unique response. We represent large players who have their own LLM models. Once the item is in public domain, I cannot verbatim reproduce it but I can access it.
Delhi High Court is hearing the suit filed by news agency Asian News International (ANI) concerning copyright, trademark infringement suit against digital content creator and YouTuber Mohak Mangal.
Mangal has filed a fresh application seeking reinstatement of ten videos taken down by YouTube due to copyright strike by ANI.
Senior Advocate Diya Kapur and Advocate Nakul Gandhi are appearing for Mangal.
Sr Adv Kapur - They give me option to give a counter. The Court has not given injunction but this soverreign function is being discharged by YoutTube that the videos cannot be re-instated.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gives an undertaking before Delhi High Court to formulate final guidelines for disabled friendly accessibility features on OTT platforms.
The matter was listed before Justice Sachin Datta.
The petitioners, specially abled visually impaired persons, were aggrieved by the lack of disabled friendly accessibility features in the recent Bollywood blockbuster movies on OTT platform.
"Shoe throwing incident" mentioned before Justice Surya Kant led bench
SCBA President Vikas Singh: This shoe throwing incident cannot go unnoticed like this. This person has no remorse. I have sought consent from attorney general and the criminal contempt be listed tomorrow. Social media has gone berserk
SG Tushar Mehta: consent has been given...It is the institutional integrity at stake.
Justice Surya Kant: We are all for free speech. Problem is how to regulate.
SG: The opportunity this institution missed taking and some action was needed.
Justice Kant: CJI has shown magnanimity and it shows that Institution is not affected as such
SG: The way this social media is being uncontrollably used..some are making a glory out of this.. and some are speaking of his courage etc. This is about institution..it cannot go on.
SC: We will treat this matter uninfluenced by anything else.
Sr Adv Singh: This is an insult to Lord Vishnu also. I am sure he took would not want this.
Justice Kant: Our religion has never promoted violence. Just think about this..in social media everything becomes a saleable thing.