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Not exercising restraint on social media may lead to state intervention: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday said that citizens must know the value of freedom of speech and exercise self-restraint on social media, failing which the state would intervene, The Indian Express reported. The bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and KV Viswanathan also considered framing guidelines to control 'divisive tendencies' on social media platforms, PTI reported. The bench was hearing a plea by Kolkata resident Wajahat Khan who had sought consolidation of first information reports filed against him in several states in connection with his allegedly objectionable posts about Hindu deities on social media. The court cited the reasonable restrictions under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. The provision outlines the restrictions that can be placed on the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression. The bench said that the restrictions had been placed correctly and that the state can step in when there was a violation. 'We are not speaking about censorship,' Live Law quoted Nagarathna as saying. 'But in the interest of fraternity, secularism and dignity of will have to go into this beyond this petition.' Nagarathna said that one of the fundamental duties of citizens was to uphold the unity and integrity of the country. '…See all these divisive tendencies, at least on social media, must be curbed,' she said. 'But to what extent can the state curb?' She went on to ask: 'Instead, why can't the citizens themselves regulate themselves? Citizens must know the value of freedom of speech and expression. If they don't then the state will step in and who wants the state to step in? Nobody wants the state to step in.' The bench asked the petitioner's counsel and the state 'to assist vis-à-vis the guidelines to be issued to the citizens to comply'. In March, the Supreme Court asked the Union government to frame regulations to stop the broadcast of programmes that do not meet the 'acceptable moral standards of our society', particularly on social media platforms while ensuring that the measures do not impinge the fundamental right to free speech.
The Hindu
17 minutes ago
- The Hindu
Madras High Court stays order directing Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission to reinstate former employee
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has stayed the operation of an order passed by a single judge directing the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission in Chennai, to reinstate a former employee with back wages. The Bench has also decided to examine in detail as to whether diplomatic missions would fall under the definition of the term 'industry' under the Industrial Disputes Act of 1947. The Bench comprising Justices R. Subramanian and K. Surender granted the interim stay after the Deputy High Commission preferred a writ appeal, through its counsel G. Kalyan Jhabak, and contended that the single judge had overlooked the proposition that an Embassy or High Commission could not be termed as an 'industry' as it had been defined under Section 2(j) of the I.D. Act. The orders had been passed on a writ petition filed by T. Senthilkumari, who had served as Consular Assistant at the Deputy High Commission of Sri Lanka in Chennai between 2008 and 2018. The Deputy High Court Commission also argued that there was no master-servant relationship between it and the writ petitioner who had sought reinstatement in service and hence the question of reinstatement would not arise at all. Claiming that the petitioner was not terminated at all, the appellant stated that she had worked only in a temporary post and her contractual service had come to an end on December 31, 2018. On the other hand, the single judge, in his February 12 order, had held that foreign diplomatic missions in India could not claim any exemption from following the labour and social security laws of the country, at least with respect to Indians employed in their High Commissions and Consulates here. He stated that the Parliament had enacted the Diplomatic Relations (Vienna Convention) Act, 1972, to give a force of law to a convention adopted by India at the United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities held in Vienna on April 14, 1961. Article 33 of the Convention clearly states that only foreign nationals serving in a diplomatic mission would be exempt from the social security laws of the receiving State. 'Therefore, the exemption provided for in the Article is not applicable to the nationals of the receiving State... In respect of such employees to whom the exemption provided in the Article does not apply, the diplomatic agents shall observe obligations which the social security provisions of the receiving State impose upon employers. In such view of the matter, no immunity can be claimed by the management,' the judge had said. He had further held that Indians serving in foreign diplomatic missions here need not obtain the Centre's permission, under Section 86 of the Code of Civil Procedure, before approaching an industrial tribunal against their employers. Relying upon a 1963 Supreme Court verdict, he had said, industrial tribunals could not be deemed to be a court for the purpose of obtaining the Centre's express permission before suing a diplomatic mission.
Time of India
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- Time of India
SC sends notice to UP govt on plea over QR code directive for eateries along 'kanwar' yatra route
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea challenging its directive requiring eateries along the 'kanwar' yatra route to display QR codes revealing the names and identities of their owners. A bench comprising Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh issued a notice to the state and scheduled the hearing for July 22 on a petition filed by academician Apoorvanand Jha and others. Last year, the top court had stayed similar orders issued by BJP-ruled states including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Madhya Pradesh, which had directed food establishments along the yatra routes to display details of their owners, staff, and other personnel. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Undo Referring to a press release issued by the UP administration on June 25, Jha, said, "The new measures mandate the display of QR codes on all eateries along the kanwar route, which reveal the names and identities of the owners, thereby achieving the same discriminatory profiling that was previously stayed by this court." The petition said the state government's directive asking stall owners to reveal religious and caste identities under "lawful license requirements" breaches the right to privacy of the shop, dhaba, and restaurant owners. Live Events A large number of devotees travel from various places with 'kanwars' carrying holy water from the Ganga to perform 'jalabhishek' of Shivlings during the Hindu calendar month of 'Shravan'. Many believers shun consumption of meat during the month. Many don't even consume meals containing onions and garlic.
