-The Indian Express In another significant departure from the draft Bill, the Bill allows personal data to be stored and processed abroad, without requiring a mirror of the data in India. The Personal Data Protection Bill listed to be introduced in Lok Sabha on Wednesday has allowed transfer of certain types of personal data overseas, but has given broad powers to government agencies to collect personal and sensitive data of citizens. An earlier...
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Demonising the legal system won't help -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Some of the existing laws are already too harsh and some other provisions are not being implemented The killing of the four men accused of the rape and murder of the Hyderabad veterinarian will need to be properly investigated, though the Telangana police’s conduct thus far does not inspire confidence. Ever since the police first turned away the victim’s family when they went to lodge a complaint, they demonstrated no...
More »Constitutional justice is non-negotiable -Kalpana Kannabiran & B Sudarshan Reddy
-The Hindu The ends of justice are not served by wanton killing and retributive blood lust; India must follow constitutional morality Last Friday, the country was rudely awakened to the news of the deaths, in an encounter early in the morning, of the four accused in the rape and murder of the young veterinarian in Hyderabad — an incident, which happened on Wednesday, triggering an angry response across the country with demands...
More »Due process vs instant verdict: Applause for Telangana police and a few questions -Seema Chishti & Avishek G Dastidar
-The Indian Express Hyderabad rape-murder case: From Parliament to social media, from chief ministers to actors and sports stars, several invoked the “delay” in the judicial system to justify the killings. The showering of petals by local residents on the Telangana Police team that shot dead all the four accused in the gangrape and murder of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad found an echo far beyond the scene of the Crime. From...
More »NCRB silence on farmer suicides: Reason given by govt fails against earlier data -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express The latest NCRB report does not enlist reasons for farmer suicides. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs told Parliament last week that the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) had done away with diversified data on farmer suicides in its latest report as many states reported the figure to be “nil”, and hence recording reasons for the suicides was “untenable”. However, an analysis of previous NCRB data shows that states...
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