Chander Vibhas, a surgeon, accused in a 2011 murder case lodged at Delhi's Hari Nagar police station and facing his trial now, threw rice on the courtroom floor during a 11 August hearing.
The decision follows a 2021 probe into WhatsApp's privacy policy, highlighting growing regulatory scrutiny on tech giants as India plans stricter digital competition laws.
Since January 2020, Supreme Court has pulled up Centre & states in at least 40 cases for filing late pleas. Time period to file appeal in SC is 90 days, but many were filed after 400-600 days.
Prashant Bhushan defended his tweets, saying they were not intended to disrespect SC or judiciary but to express anguish at what he felt was a 'deviation from its sterling past record'.
A poor Muslim man from Kurnool, selling khoya buns during the Medaram Jatara in Telangana, was harassed by some YouTubers and surrounded by a mob over allegations of 'food jihad'.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
The framers of broad brushstrokes/sweeping generalisations, abusive stereotyping laws like the Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act should know – as any five-year-old, and every serious philosopher of science will no doubt tell you – that western science is NOT the only way of knowing and understanding the world.
How about we NOT criminalise things we don’t understand, and how about NOT labelling what is beyond our (western-(ised)-educated) minds as “inhuman” and “evil” ?
The framers of broad brushstrokes/sweeping generalisations, abusive stereotyping laws like the Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act should know – as any five-year-old, and every serious philosopher of science will no doubt tell you – that western science is NOT the only way of knowing and understanding the world.
How about we NOT criminalise things we don’t understand, and how about NOT labelling what is beyond our (western-(ised)-educated) minds as “inhuman” and “evil” ?