The central government Thursday told the Supreme Court that for an orderly civil society, the penal provision of criminal defamation was integral to the reasonable restriction imposed by the constitution on the right to freedom of speech and expression it guaranteed. Defending the Indian Penal Code’s sections 499 and 500 spelling out punishment for criminal defamation,…
While the Supreme Court is seized of a batch of petitions questioning the constitutionality of criminal defamation proceedings, the Madras high court on Tuesday stopped just inches short of decriminalizing the ‘offence’ when it ruled that persons facing such cases could not be considered to have a ‘criminal background’. “The trend all over the world…
There is a need to decriminalise penal provision for defamation and the “colonial law”, which has been inevitably abused, needs to be re-examined rigorously, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Toeing identical line adopted by BJP’sSubramanian Swamy and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi who have also challenged constitutional validity of…
The United States expressed concern on Tuesday about the treatment of opposition figures in Bahrain, following the arrest of a prominent Sunni Muslim leader for plotting to overthrow the monarchy three weeks after he was freed from jail. Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said on Sunday that Ibrahim Sharif, former head of the secular National Democratic Action…
BJP’s Subrmanian Swamy and Congress’Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday came out in unison to assail the criminal defamation law before the Supreme Court which said that lodging of cases for political speech and debates under the controversial provisions should be avoided. “Political debates may not come under the definition of criminal offence for defamation,” a bench…
In the wake of terror groups using Internet to incite religious intolerance, the government has ordered blocking of at least 40 webpages with inflammatory content relating to a minority community, including posts on social media and popular video-sharing platforms. “Government has issued order under Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking Access of Information by…
In the wake of terror groups using internet to incite religious intolerance, the government has ordered blocking of at least 40 webpages with inflammatory content relating to a minority community, including posts on social media and popular video-sharing platforms. “Government has issued order under Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking Access of Information by…
Whilst the internet of things (IoT) has helped multinational companies to increase their revenues by an average of 15.6 per cent, according to a TCS study, it also has to face cyber attacks. HP Fortify on Demand has highlighted this vulnerability in its latest study on smartwatches. The TCS Global Trend study on IoT, which…
Indian companies are increasingly suffering huge losses due to rising cyber attacks that leads to interruption of business and loss of customer data. However, with only 100-150 policies covering cyber crime liability insurance being sold in the country, majority companies are inadequately protected against the growing menace, according to insurance companies. Financial sector that carries…
A security expert who recently demonstrated he could hack into a Jeep and control its most vital functions said the same could be done with hundreds of thousands of other vehicles on the road today. Security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek collaborated with Wired magazine to demonstrate how they could remotely hack into and…