Wrote this day before. Paywalled though. The part about Justice Lalit needs to be updated thanks to his judgment in the Vinod Dua case today. m.timesofindia.com/india/why-now-… Some numbers worth looking at - NCRB started reporting data on offences against the State from the year 2014. From 2014 to 2016 only one case of conviction for sedition was reported.

While we wait for the full judgment, I really hope this is not just lip service. The same bench is hearing the constitutional challenge to sedition law so this is a heartening development.

https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1400317579416129537

So the petition filed by Vinod Dua sought two reliefs. 1. Quashing of the FIR, and 2. Guidelines to protect journalists of more than 10 yrs standing from FIRs.

A poor muslim vendor is arrested for selling footwear manufactured by someone else on dubious charges. Assuming s. 153A can be stretched to harrass him, I can't comprehend how ss. 323 and 504 IPC have been included. He was simply minding his business trying to earn a living.

https://twitter.com/Benarasiyaa/status/1346390192551129091

If you think it has nothing to do with his religion then I have an overcrowded Mughal monument in Agra to sell to you.

Dr. Michael Mach, a jew who is the head of Jewish studies at Tel Aviv University is in fact - wait for it - a descendant of Adolf Hitler. His grandfather was Adolf's cousin and carried the surname but Michael converted to Judaism and migrated to Israel.
english.m.tau.ac.il/profile/mfmach Hitler's family changed their surname to 'Hiller' after the war to escape the infamy. Hitler's nephew (Brit citizen) had earlier, after failing to capitalise on his surname in Germany migrated to USA and eventually fought in WW2 against Germany as a part of the US Navy!

This MHA order fails the test of section 69(1) of the Information Technology Act at the threshold. Clearly ultra vires the Act. Sec 69(1) provides that a 'reasoned' order enabling interception, monitoring and decryption can be allowed in the interest of sovereignty, integrity, defence, security, public order or relations with other nations.