The Bombay High Court while dealing with a petition seeking actions against the accused for posting inflammatory speech on social media, observed that the right to free speech “cannot be used to sow seeds of hatred and to create disharmony among religious communities.”
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an age-based access control to social media and to devise a profile verification mechanism to eliminate illicit content on social media.
“Almost every school-going child has access to social media these days, but shockingly hardly any of them know about the privacy settings on their profiles. With details of their personal lives going public, they make themselves vulnerable to all sorts of cyber harassment.”
The Punjab and Haryana Bar Council has asked lawyers to not use social media for advertisements to solicit work, as the act would amount to misconduct.
The case of British backpacker Grace Millane, who was murdered in Auckland, New Zealand, after a Tinder date in December 2018, triggered UK’s draft Domestic Abuse Bill which has now returned to Parliament.
The Southern Bench of National Green Tribunal, Chennai on Friday took suo moto cognizance of death of pregnant elephant in Kerala which has agitated the minds of the people all over the nation and as well as became viral in the social media.
The Karnataka High Court has granted bail to two men accused for selling watermelons which had fallen into a drain with an intention to endanger public health.