While striking down the IGST imposed on the import of Oxygen Concentrators for personal use as unconstitutional, the Delhi High Court bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and Talwant Singh had made a very special observation. It said: “This is a George Floyd moment for the citizens of this country.”
It is telling, because while the immediate reference is of Floyd’s last cries of “I can’t breathe,” even when the Judges said that it was in a “different context and setting” the fact that remained unsaid was a reference to police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed Floyd.
A trivial dispute between Lawyers and Delhi has taken a gigantic form and stunned the national capital.
The news channels are presenting the live coverage of the Lawyers vs Delhi Police controversy.
People who were present at the location saw how a trivial matter resulted in a physical fight between the two groups as other Lawyers and inspectors supported their fellows.
Delhi High Court also dismisses another application of Police seeking permission to lodge FIR against lawyers in Saket District Court incident https://t.co/0YdCuOiNsD
— ANI (@ANI) November 6, 2019
Both groups went out of control, and all the visitors became the audience and started shooting the entire episode on their smartphones and shared the video on social media.
The Delhi High Court will hear a petition, challenging the constitutional validity of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 on Thursday, which came in force on February 25, 2021.The Bench headed by Chief Justice D.N.
Patel will hear the petition, filed by Advocate and author Sanjay Kumar Singh.
The plea averred concerns regarding the unconstitutional restriction on the petitioner’s freedom of speech and expression in so far as to posting content on social media platform.It pertinently circle around Section 3(1)(c) and 3 (1) (d) of the statute, respectively; which direct to remove content by social media platforms by alike users like the petitioner and to coherently provide for immediate termination of access to such social media platforms, if such a content is shared or published.Read More...