Senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, who has been one of Twitter’s more prolific and active lawyers (with 37,330 tweets as of 2015 and 98,000 followers more recently), has been banned from the platform and has sent a legal notice to the social media giant, according to The Print.

Read Gautam Bhatia’s brief analysis of the case here . Suhrith (@suhrith) tweeted: Still struck by the court’s brave stance. Had recently read this on censorship in Kenya: https://t.co/1aV5Keu2n7 : Kenya: The Devious Art of Censorship by Alan Rusbridger In some parts of the world, it is still possib...

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain the petition of BJP leader and lawyer Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay, who seeking to get an order to make playing of the national anthem compulsory before court proceedings from the same bench that had on Wednesday passed a controversial order making the playing of the anthem in cinemas mandatory, reported PTI.

The Supreme Court said today defamation laws cannot be used by the government to stifle criticism.

The Tamil novel, “Madhorubagan”, authored by Perumal Murugan, and translated into English as “One Part Woman” which received literary awards, was alleged to narrate non-existent conventions that sought to tarnish the image of populace of the area.

“Professor BP Mahesh Guru, who teaches at the Mysore University, was arrested on 17 June when he appeared before a Mysore court in connection with a case registered against him for allegedly insulting the Hindu god at a conference in January 2015,” reported the Hindustan Times.

It was pretty much about who would blink first: Swamy or the bench.

According to internet freedom watchdog Freedom House, “Internet freedom in India has improved in the past year” in its report of 65 countries, with India having seen “positive developments relating to ‘regulatory framework, declining detentions for online speech and burgeoning digital access’”, repo...

The Supreme Court’s Women Lawyers Association (WLA) has asked the Supreme Court to ban porn websites from the internet, to implement porn victim protection measures and to direct law enforcement agencies for stricter prevention of porn distribution, reported Live Law . The WLA through its secretary ...

A Supreme Court bench of justices Gopala Gowda and Amitava Roy declined a transfer petition from Ahmedabad city civil court to Delhi in the Rs 250 crore defamation case launched by Essar against Caravan magazine and others, as first reported by Legally India in August . Mint reported: Lawyer Prashan...

The Hindustan Times ’ Aloke Tikku reported: A first-of-its-kind set of statistics compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reveals that 2,402 people, including 29 women, were arrested in 4,192 cases under section 66A — which was struck down in March by the Supreme Court that ruled that i...

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions including by Congress vice -president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the constitutional validity of Indian Penal Code’s provisions on criminal defamation. A ben...

Indian internet service providers (ISPs) received a notice from the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) two days ago (31 July), ordering the blocking of 857 websites, many of which appeared to host pornography, according to an authoritative source at an ISP.

After Subramanian Swamy and PP Rao began arguing yesterday in the multi-petitioner challenge of sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Swamy, senior counsel Rao and Rajeev Dhavan today continued their arguments.

The hearings in the Subramaniam Swamy v Union of India case began today, with Swamy, alongside several other petitioners, seeking to get the Supreme Court to strike down section 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code. This is what happened.

Defamation will no longer be a jailable offence under which journalists may be charged for their reportage, if the Foundation of Media Professionals’ (FMP) constitutional challenge to India’s criminal defamation provisions wins in the Supreme Court.

Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra is still anxious a month after the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a controversial law that led to his arrest for e-mailing a cartoon mocking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The Supreme Court yesterday began hearing former Bharatiya Janata Dal (BJP) party president Subramanian Swamy’s challenge of India’s criminal defamation laws in the Supreme Court yesterday, reported// Outlook and others. Swamy, for whom senior advocates GS Mani and Sushil Kumar Jain appeared in cour...

Despite all the legal firepower involved, it was far from certain that the case would go the way it did.

The NLU Delhi students who protested a stand-up comedy act by Abhish Mathew on campus, which attracted considerable media attention and controversy, have written an open letter signed by 15 students and supporters defending their right to protest, even if it disrupted the performer.