Recent rulings by the Delhi and Madras Courts offer sharply contrasting views on the legality of phone bugging in India—reviving critical questions about privacy and the scope of state power
The Division Bench of Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery passed this order on Tuesday while hearing a PIL filed by Nathu Prasad Kushwaha and 14 others.
Upadhyay has asked the Election Commission to issue directions as per the Supreme Court judgment of September 25, 2018. In that order the top court had directed the ECI to take appropriate steps to secure the fundamental rights of voters (right to know the candidate) guaranteed under the Article 19).
The Bombay High Court has said that freedom of speech and expression given under Article 19 of the Constitution is not an absolute right while denying interim protection from arrest to a woman for allegedly making objectionable remarks on Twitter against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aditya Thackeray.