What breaches 'law and order'� would not necessarily affect society or a particular community as a whole.  SAURAV DATTA revisits what courts have said about ‘reasonable restrictions.'

There was stiff opposition from within the Maharashtra cabinet that journalists should not be accorded any ‘special’ status and that malpractices of journalists must also be included in any proposed legislation.  GEETA SESHU reports on the state government’s draft legislation to protect journalists. Pix courtesy: NDTV

There was stiff opposition from within the Maharashtra cabinet that journalists should not be accorded any ‘special’ status and that malpractices of journalists must also be included in any proposed legislation.  GEETA SESHU reports on the state government’s draft legislation to protect journalists. Pix courtesy: NDTV

The Indian government’s clarification on the curbs on intermediaries seeks to reassure critics of the IT rules,  But will this suffice, asks GEETA SESHU

The new rules under the IT Amendment Act of 2008 actually authorize the government to access passwords and credit card information. Corporates have to hand them over, if the government asks for them.  A FREE SPEECH HUB report

Fair dealing clauses, technology, electronic copying, piracy...  on the occasion of World Copyright Day today, SARIM NAVED discusses the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act.

The law of criminal defamation has several ramifications, affecting the right to privacy and contempt too  and can be misused by the high and mighty to curb criticism, says RAKESH SHUKLA

The directive of a Delhi metropolitan magistrate to police to file an FIR charging sedition against the writer and the Kashmiri separatist leader,  exposes our law-enforcers intolerance for dissent, says RAKESH SHUKLA

Despite stricter judicial interpretations of sedition, dissenting voices have been prosecuted under it,  says SIDDHARTH NARRAIN in the third part of our series on sedition and the law.

The response of a newly independent nation to cries for freedom indicates its maturity, or lack of it.  In this, the second part of our series on sedition and the law, SIDDHARTH NARRAIN looks at how it crept into the Indian Constitution.