#SupremeCourt to shortly hear a petition seeking probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the killings of two BJP workers in the post poll violence that rocked the State
The plea is by Biswajit Sarkar, the brother of deceased Bengal BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar, who was allegedly murdered when violence broke out after the Mamata Banerjee led All India Trinamool Congress secured a convincing victory over the BJP in the 2021 assembly elections.
Plea before #SupremeCourt prayed for the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) by the Supreme Court so that the murder of Avijit Sarkar and a Bengal BJP booth worker, Haran Adhikari, can be enquired into.
The top court had issued notice in the plea last week
Hearing begins
Senior Adv Siddharth Luthra appears for State of West Bengal
WhatsApp in its plea before Delhi High Court has said that the Indian Govt policy of "traceability" will break the end to end encryption of WhatsApp. WhatsApp deployed end-to-end encryption throughout our app in 2016.
In order to trace even one message, services would have to trace every message. There is no way to predict which message Indian Govt would want to investigate in the future. #WhatsApp#DelhiHighCourt#ITRules
Supreme Court vacation bench to shortly hear an appeal by the Uttar Pradesh government against a recent Allahabad High Court order which held that apprehension of death due to #COVID19 can be a ground for grant of anticipatory bail to an accused #SupremeCourt #anticipatorybail
. @myogiadityanath govt submits that HC order implies that the administration of criminal justice "shall be kept in abeyance during the ongoing pandemic" and the "offenders shall enjoy a free hand while committing crimes with impunity during the ongoing pandemic." #supremecourt
Allahabad HC had recently observed that the State lacks preparation and resources to tackle the COVID-19 crisis, and hence a person arrested is at risk of contracting the virus #COVID19#allahabadhc