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9 Mar

#DelhiHighCourt hears the challenge to the new Information Technology (Guidelines for intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

Plea is by the Foundation of Independent Journalism.

Matter is before CJ DN Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh.

Adv Prasanna S: We are challenged the Information Technology (Guidelines for intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

Court: This is travelling beyond which act

Prasanna S: The Information Technology Act

Court: Which provision and how is it travelling beyond?

Adv Prasanna reads out the object and purpose of the Information Technology Act

Prasanna: Regulation of content and news of current affairs is not even in contemplation.. It does not recognise newspaper entities, news entities at all...

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9 Mar

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#SupremeCourt to shortly hear plea by a Former Indian Police Service officer and @BJP4India leader Bharati Ghosh seeking protection in FIRS lodged against her by @WBPolice even though SC had ordered no coercive action against her
@BJP4Bengal @MamataOfficial

Senior Adv NK Kaul: You had protected her earlier since she attempted to take over the might of the state government. She has been riddled by FIR after FIR

Senior Adv Kaul: During lok sabha elections she was called for long questioning hours. Now allegations against her that she and CISF had caused violence. 2 years later I find an FIR filed. Non bailable warrants have been issued now and police wants to execute them

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8 Mar

#WomensDay event hosted by ILI, Kerala on “Women in the Legal Profession, Triumphs and Challenges” to begin shortly. Speakers:

- Chief Justice Hima Kohli (Telangana HC)
- Justice Anu Sivaraman (Kerala HC)
- Geetha Ramaseshan
- SK Devi

Watch live-stream:

Correction: The event is now being live-streamed at a different link:

After welcome address by SK Devi, President of Kerala Federation of Women's Lawyers, Justice Hima Kohli begins speaking.

Justice Kohli: All women have had challenges thrown at them, wherever they are, whichever field of practice they are in.

#WomensDay

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8 Mar

@CCI_India

Karnataka HC is hearing two petitions moved by Amazon and flipkart seeking to quash the probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against them for alleged violations of Competition Law.

@CCI_India
@Flipkart
@amazonIN

ASG Madhavi Divan appearing for CCI: Today I want to deal with the issue of proxy informant and the larger issue of FDI Policy.

Divan: If Party wants to CCI/DG to keep some info confidential, it has to claim - restriction of publication written in red ink, such info should be termed as confidential.

Such parts of the docs shall be kept confidential if the Director General/CCI is satisfied.

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8 Mar

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#SupremeCourt to shortly hear plea by a Former Indian Police Service officer and @BJP4India leader Bharati Ghosh seeking transfer of all the cases registered against her by the West Bengal police to an independent agency

Ms Ghosh has alleged that after she joined the BJP, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, 10 First Information Reports or FIRs were registered against her in false cases and after the elections, four more FIRs were lodged.

Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal appears for respondents.

Advocate says this matter was to be specifically listed today.

Justice Lalit: interim protection right?

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8 Mar

CJI SA Bobde led bench of the #SupremeCourt to shortly hear a writ petition by a 14 year old seeking permission to terminate her 26 weeks old pregnancy.

The girl from Haryana states she was "cruelly #raped" by her cousin which led to the unwanted #pregnancy

#abortion

Adv VK Biju: We are grateful for your kindness

CJI: good to hear this. We have heard the opposite in last two weeks

Adv Biju: We have given highest respect to womanhood. We asked are you going to marry. We didn't say marry

SG Tushar Mehta: you asked a question in a different context. You were quoted out of context

CJI: we didn't have any marital rape case before us. I asked my brother's. They too don't remember.

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