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Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
'Just connecting the dots': Karnataka's IT-BT Minister Priyank Kharge defends proposed misinformation bill
Academy Empower your mind, elevate your skills The Karnataka government recently drew national attention with the early workings of a Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 , placed before the state cabinet last week. The bill aims to tackle misinformation and fake news on social media platforms, with violations attracting a penalty of Rs 10 lakh and seven years' imprisonment.A leaked 11-page draft noted broad provisions under the bill for anti-feminist content, superstition, and insults to Sanatan Dharma. This has sparked a backlash from civil society members and digital rights the bill is still under deliberation, state IT Minister Priyank Kharge said that it is being misinterpreted. In a conversation with ET, he cleared the air on what the state intends to achieve with the new 11-page document is not the draft. That is the opinion of a few people in the law department. They have to still bounce it off the Home and IT departments, only then will it be taken forward. When the law minister addressed the press after the cabinet meeting, he just said that they are bringing in three to four bills. It has not been consulted with evidence not me saying it's a problem. The World Economic Forum report said that India is number one in spreading misinformation. One of the top three people in our country, that is, the former Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, has said that misinformation is extremely dangerous for Election Commission of the country, during the Parliament election of 2024, said that three Ms are extremely dangerous for the electoral process. That is muscle, money, and misinformation. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi agrees that misinformation is a havoc and is a threat to democracy. When everybody acknowledges that, somebody needs to do something about not trying to change any policy. We're just trying to connect the dots that already exist and make a bill out of it. When we did the Information Disorder Tracking Unit (a fact-checking exercise that ran a 90-day trial during the Lok Sabha polls), we classified the information circulating online as disinformation, malinformation, or fake news. We just want to debunk such are not doing anything such as tampering with the IT Act, 2000. (The centre's bill attempts to regulate digital news and online content creators, previously under the purview of the IT Act, leading to questions about the overreach and a potential clash of regulatory powers.) We are merely categorising any public interest information as true or false. The Centre's bill attempts to take away one's privacy. They want to look into your phone, what you're shopping and want to control your are not deciding whether it is misinformation or fake news. We are getting professionals to do that. We would love it if even the Editors Guild of India, or the Press Council of India, or anybody else wants to be a part of it. If any trusted news outlet comes out and says, 'Look, this is misinformation, it is fake news,' won't it help us? That's all we are trying to do with the intent is to go to the source, who is trying to spread the misinformation. If someone is willingly forwarding some image or news which is fake, they will also be reprimanded. For example, you know your friends are going to murder somebody. You're not going to drive the knife in, but you are there. You did everything. You drove him. That is abetment of the said the bill will require a wider level of consultations and emphasised the government's take, focusing on accountability and transparency.
Deccan Herald
5 days ago
- Politics
- Deccan Herald
Article 370 was against Dr Ambedkar's ideology of one Constitution for united India: CJI Gavai
Gavai was part of a five-judge Constitution bench, headed by then Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, that unanimously upheld the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Former CJIs to present views before ONOE panel
Former chief justices of India D Y Chandrachud and J S Kehar would appear before the parliamentary panel scrutinising the bills proposing simultaneous polls, a source said on Thursday. The next meeting of the Joint Committee on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth (Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024 has been scheduled for July 11 when the panel members will hold interaction with the two retired chief justices, the source added. Besides, senior advocate and former Rajya Sabha member E M Sudarsana Natchiappan , who is also a former chairperson of the standing committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, and former Union law minister and former Karnataka chief minister M Veerappa Moily would also appear before the panel for an interaction. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Direct Shopping From Adidas Franchise Store, Up To 50% Off Original Adidas Get Offer Undo The 39-member committee is in the process of scrutinising two bills on simultaneous elections, including one for amending the Constitution. The tenure of the committee headed by BJP MP P P Chaudhary has extended till the first day of the last week of Parliament's monsoon session. Live Events The bill was sent to the panel in December last year after being introduced in Lok Sabha . The government has asserted that simultaneous elections would boost development, as frequent elections hampered development work, and reduce public expenditure. Opposition parties have slammed the idea as "unconstitutional" and against federalism.
Indian Express
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
The diversity of families: Kerala HC does well to back transgender co-parenting
In a reassuring affirmation of dignity and equality, the Kerala High Court has recognised a transgender couple from Kozhikode as the legal 'parents' of their biological child. The transgender man who gave birth in 2023, and his partner, had sought recognition as co-parents without gender-binary labels so that their child's future — especially with regard to identification documents and school admission — is not impeded. While the Court declined to read down the format mentioned in the Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 1999, saying that this was a 'rare and exceptional' case, it has directed authorities to issue a birth certificate that reflects the gender-neutral term instead of the conventional 'father' and 'mother'. In its observation, the Court emphasised that in certain instances, 'social justice adjudication' must take precedence over an 'adversarial approach'. In doing so, it broadened the legal imagination around family, gender, and parenthood. In August 2022, granting maternity leave to a central government employee who had previously availed it for the care of her step-children, a bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bopanna had observed that 'atypical' families are equally deserving of legal protections and social welfare benefits. 'The black letter of the law must not be relied upon to disadvantage families which are different from traditional ones,' they had held. The apex court's refusal to extend civil union or joint adoption rights to LGBTQIA+ couples and its deferral of substantive rights to legislative reform — despite acknowledging queer love and lived discrimination — however, has come as a setback after years of progressive milestones, such as the 2014 NALSA verdict recognising the rights of transgender persons and the 2018 Navtej Johar ruling that decriminalised same-sex relations. In such circumstances, the Kerala High Court's verdict offers a template for affirming queer parenthood within the existing legal framework — and places the child at the centre of that empathetic recognition. It asserts that constitutional dignity cannot wait for political consensus. Days after the Kerala HC verdict, the Madras High Court, while ruling on a habeas corpus petition by a woman forcibly estranged from her lesbian partner, upheld her right to 'find a family'. 'The concept of a 'chosen family' is now well-settled and acknowledged in LGBTQIA+ jurisprudence,' the division bench said. In a country grappling with entrenched social prejudices, these affirmations of diversity reflect a welcome judicial sensitivity to the complexities and plurality of lived experience. They validate, with quiet strength, the right to belong — not as a privilege granted conditionally by tradition, but a truth that embraces every identity, even those that challenge convention.
India Today
06-06-2025
- Business
- India Today
DY Chandrachud takes key role in German energy firm vs Russia dispute
In a significant development in the ongoing arbitration between German energy company Wintershall and Russia, former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has been designated as the appointing authority under the Energy Charter Treaty, a multilateral pact that works under a framework for cooperation in the energy Chandrachud, who demitted office as the Chief Justice in November 2024, is widely regarded for his contributions to constitutional law and international philosophy of law. His appointment signals the continued involvement of eminent jurists from diverse legal traditions in resolving high-stakes international investment development came following the resignation of Eduardo Siqueiros as the appointing authority on May 22, 2025. The designation of the appointing authority comes under the rules of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), which frequently provides administrative support in disputes between investors and states under the Energy Charter Treaty April this year, Wintershall moved the ECT tribunal seeking an anti-suit injunction directed against the Russian court proceedings, in response to which Moscow had asked for a short suspension of arbitration proceedings also offering that the court proceedings in Russia would be of the arbitrators in the case resigned after Russia didn't accommodate his request to terminate its injunction proceedings and ensure that the ECT tribunal and arbitration counsel were immune from prosecution in was followed by another procedural order in May where the truncated ECT tribunal agreed to temporarily suspend arbitration proceedings conditional on termination of Russian injunction proceedings. It was also stated that such proceedings amounted to a breach of the arbitration a May 24 order, the two arbitrators directed that the case resume, and Moscow was ordered to terminate the Russian injunction proceedings immediately and not file proceedings that would jeopardise the arbitration's per December 2023 Russian decrees, Wintershall Dea's stakes in the Yuzhno-Russkoye oil and gas condensate field and the Achimov gas projects were given back to newly-created Russian companies and offered for sale to Gazovyye company had initiated arbitration proceedings against Russia, which had repeatedly protested against such cases, saying they should have been considered only in Russian on one hand, the state has filed a challenge against the two remaining arbitrators, and on the other, Wintershall, in this case, has sought the move of the seat of arbitration from Dubai to per the arbitrator's latest order, the decision regarding seat relocation was deferred until either the reconstitution of the tribunal, or resolution of Russia's challenge against the two arbitrators, whichever is the ECT, the appointing authority plays an important role and has responsibilities, including facilitation of the constitution of the arbitral tribunal, particularly in case of disagreements between DY Chandrachud served as the Chief Justice of India from November 2022 to November 2024 and was succeeded by Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who also retired last Reel
