SC refuses to issue interim order blocking pornographic content on the Internet; says it would violate Article 21
Jul 10, 2015
A writ petition filed by an Indore-based lawyer - Kamlesh Vaswani - seeking to prohibit and criminalize the viewing of Internet porn was taken up for hearing by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, 8th July.
Subramaniam Swamy v. Union of India [W.P. (Crl) 184 of 2014]
Jul 08, 2015
Subramaniam Swamy, petitioner, is a politician from the State of Tamil Nadu. The petitioner has challenged provisions of the Indian Penal Code that criminalize defamation in India, namely Section 499 (defines defamation1) and Section 500 (provides punishment for the offense2) before the Supreme Court of India.
DEITY says 2341 URLs were blocked in 2014; refuses to reveal more
Apr 03, 2015
On March 9, 2015, SFLC.in requested the following information from the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) under the Right to Information Act, 2005:
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Number of URL-blocking orders issued by DEITY in 2012, 2013 and 2014
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Number of URL-blocking orders issued by DEITY in 2012, 2013 and 2014 based on:
