The Supreme Court on Tuesday said a country possessing spyware for security purposes is not wrong but using it against a civil society person will be looked into.
The matter came up for a hearing at a special court in Kolkata on Monday afternoon, where the counsel of the victim’s parents submitted a written synopsis of his observations on the CBI probe into the matter so far and in that written submission, this particular allegation was made.
Following a plea over obscene content on OTT and social media, SC notes that these platforms have a social responsibility and issues a notice to the Centre.
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted an interim bail till May 8 to Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term in 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, to attend to his ailing mother who is said to be in a serious condition.
Posting the matter for final hearing on May 6 and 7, a bench of Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Rajesh Bindal told the advocates appearing for the Gujarat government and the convicts to file a compilation of their submissions in the case.
: He questions the propriety of order quashing their remission of sentence
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta told senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi appearing for Asaram Bapu to go to the Rajasthan High Court for further procedures relating to his heart and other health related issues.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra said it will tag the appeal against the High Court order along with the main case pending before the court.
The court made the observation while acquitting a person convicted on the charge of abetment of suicide by his wife way back in 1993.
Staying the Madras High Court order that protected the district collectors from appearing before the ED in response to its summons, the top court termed the plea of Tamil Nadu and its officials against the ED summons as "strange and unusual".
