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“Remember Nepal’s Porn Ban Backfire?”: SC Grills Centre on Blocking Kids from X-Rated Sites

The Central government has been severely criticized by the Supreme Court of India on the technical challenges of censoring X-rated or pornographic sites especially to kids. In one hearing, the bench headed by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai, used the recent upheaval in Nepal as a cautionary signal of the unintentional side effects of targeting the inherent censorship of the internet.

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Surya Kant + Joymalya Bagchi = Nightmare for Cyber Extortionists: SC Goes Nuclear against Digital Arrest Loot

The alarming increasing trend of the so-called digital arrests has been strictly checked by a Supreme Court bench including Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi who have assumed a no-nonsense attitude. The bench has turned into a nightmare to cyber extortionists meaning that the era of simple advisories is long gone

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“Free My Brother!”: Delhi HC Orders MEA to Rush Legal Aid for Celina Jaitly’s Jailed Sibling in UAE

The Delhi High Court has acted decisively on a petition made by a Bollywood actress Celina Jaitly who wants her brother to be released out of prison in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Justice Subramonium Prasad gave a stern order to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), wherein he instructed them to make decisive and immediate action to assist the jailed brother of the actress Vikrant Jaitly.