Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly,who was part of the two-judge Supreme Court bench that delivered the 2G verdict on Thursday, has written the following article in response to The Telegraph report on Saturday that had quoted former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. The former Speaker has since said The Telegraph report had given rise to a wrong impression and his comments were strictly confined to policy, not executive decisions. “What I...

It is difficult to explain to Indians the wrongness of collective punishment. This is because our identity is collective, and so is our behaviour This month is the 10th anniversary of the incident at Godhra and the events in Gujarat that followed. When the violence began, it was said that the media had made the violence worse. Often this was by its innocence and sometimes by its malice. Was this true? The...

Google and Facebook do have the right to Freedom Of Speech and expression but they are not above the law, the Delhi High Court said on Thursday. “They are not above the law and their rights are to be determined under the laws of the land,” Justice Suresh Kait said, hearing a petition that sought to be heard in the matter on the ground that a sanction to prosecute the websites...

-PTI   All 21 websites, including Google and Facebook, summoned earlier by a magisterial court, are liable to face prosecution for being privy to the hosting of inflammatory contents on their webpages, the Delhi High Court was told today.  The counsel for one Vinay Rai, who had moved the trial court for prosecution of various websites, including social networking sites and web search engines, argued before a bench of Justice Suresh Kait that...

-CNN-IBN The Delhi High Court will hear final arguments in the objectionable online content case. Several social networking websites, including Google and Facebook, had approached the court requesting it to quash the trial court's order, which summoned them earlier. The trial court had warned the websites that the websites could face a ban if they didn't remove objectionable content. Google and Facebook, along with 16 other websites are facing criminal proceedings. Google and...