The concept of ‘intimate association’, encapsulated under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution, https://theleaflet.in/i-enter-indian-soil-and-my-union-is-no-longer-recognised-as-marriage-petitioners-on-the-foreign-marriage-act-on-day-4-of-the-hearing/   Gursimran Kaur Bakshi· April 25, 2023  Senior advocate Anand Grover averred that the argument of the Union government that homosexual unions did not exist in the subcontinent in antiquity is disproved by a study of history and culture of this region. He pointed out that it has been clearly accepted by the court in National Legal Services Authority versus Union of India (2014) that such relationships did exist during the British period. https://youtu.be/qdZNqTia7fE?t=1817

He also presented an interesting example where the marriage between a cis-male and a cis-female is valid. During the subsistence of the marriage, if the cis-male assumes a female gender, the law does not say that the marriage becomes void or voidable.

Senior advocate Geetha Luthra, for the petitioners, raised the question of ‘invisiblisation’ of marriage of non-heteronormative couples married outside and returning to India. Pointing out the term ‘comity’, Luthra argued that India cannot be lagging behind in terms of constitutional comity as it is a violation of the provision on discrimination under Article 15 (prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth) of the Indian Constitution. She also informed the court that most democratic and progressive countries have already recognised non-heteronormative marriages. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZNqTia7fE

Vrinda Grover https://youtu.be/qdZNqTia7fE?t=14147  speaks about the Delhi Public Hearing in marriage equality case.. So well argued.. by vrinda for new imagination of family,, going even beyond non-conjugal intimacies..

Advocate Jayna Kothari similarly argued that most transgender persons have no option but to run away from their homes because of discrimination. In this context, the right to marry is extremely crucial as they are given a right to raise a family that can provide psychological and economic support.

PM CARES में 2900 Cr का घोटाला? Rs 2,913 Crore From Government Firms to Modi’s PM CARES Fund  https://youtu.be/iQUL4NSlE_Q?t=64  Apr 25, 2023

PM CARES Fund Not A Fund Of Government Of India, Cannot Be Labelled ‘Public Authority’: PMO To Delhi High Court Nupur Thapliyal 31 Jan 2023 https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/pm-cares-fund-public-authority-rti-act-parliament-govt-pmo-delhi-high-court-220299

Rs 2,913 Crore From Government Firms to Modi’s PM CARES Fund: Report https://thewire.in/politics/rs-2913-crore-from-government-firms-to-modis-pm-cares-fund-report Government-run firms accounted for 59.3% donations that listed entities made to a private fund run by PM Modi, as per Business Standard. The bulk of the amount seems to have come from corporate India’s CSR budgets in its first year.

scrutiny over CSR spending gains increased significance because of the new norms that were amended by the government in September 2022. These amended norms limit the amount of information that companies have to put out in their annual reports on CSR spends.

The status of PM CARES has been controversial for its nature and the lack of transparency around it. The PMO had told the Delhi high court in January that PM CARES is not a “public authority”.

 Out of 26 FIRs registered by Thane police in Maharashtra against opposition party members since Eknath Shinde came to power, 21 are in connection with social media posts which appear to criticise the new chief minister, Indian Express has reported. https://thewire.in/government/eknath-shinde-maharashtra-thane-police 

The Indian Express report notes that aside from Mungase, the 25 other Thane FIRs are all against members of the Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction, Nationalist Congress Party or Congress.

Most of these include the section 153 (A) of the Indian Penal Code which accuses an individual of promoting enmity between different groups.

24/04/2023

Section 27 Evidence Act Statement Not Liable To Be Rejected Merely Because It Was Recorded In A Language Not Known To Accused Through Translator  https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/section-27-evidence-act-statement-not-liable-to-be-rejected-merely-because-it-was-recorded-in-a-language-not-known-to-accused-through-translator-supreme-court-226980.. the ultimate test would be whether the statement was noted down as told by the accused. When the statement is being recorded in the language not known to the accused, the assistance of interpreter if taken by the police cannot be found fault with.

मलिक को CBI का बुलावा, पवार का बयान ग़ायब! | Satyapal Malik summoned by CBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dodXFiDgOY4 Apr 22, 2023
अगर सीबीआई सत्यपाल मलिक के लगाए आरोपों का संज्ञान ले रही है तो भारत के प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी उन्हीं सत्यपाल मलिक के लगाए आरापों का जवाब क्यों नहीं दे रहे हैं? मलिक के आरोपों पर शरद पवार के बयान भी गोदी मीडिया ने ग़ायब कर दिए हैं। वैसे गोदी मीडिया सेना, जवान, देश की रक्षा को लेकर हमलावर हो जाता है, मगर जब इसमें लापरवाही के सवाल सरकार से पूछे जाते हैं तो चुप हो जाता है। साफ़ है गोदी मीडिया देश की नहीं उस सरकार की चिंता करता है, जिसके कारण उसका नाम गोदी मीडिया पड़ा है। आज ईद है। आप सभी को ईद की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ।

Sansad में कम हो जाएंगी दक्षिण की सीटें ! जातिगत जनगणना पर मुखर Congress, कर दी बड़ी मांग https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-x20Sp4WWo Apr 22, 2023

TWeets: Mallikarjun Kharge @kharge 21 Apr

2️⃣ जातिगत जनगणना का डेटा सामाजिक न्याय के लिए बहुत ज़रूरी है।

आम Census में SC वर्ग, ST वर्ग की जनसंख्या तो पता चलती है पर OBC वर्ग की नहीं, जिससे उनके आरक्षण का सही अनुपात तय नहीं हो पाया है।

2022 के सुप्रीम कोर्ट के एक फैसले के बाद स्थानीय निकायों में आरक्षण विभिन्न जातियों की आबादी के अनुसार ही तय होना है।

भाजपा को अगर सही में OBC वर्ग की फ़िक्र है तो टले हुए Census 2021 में ही जातिगत जनगणना कराएँ और OBC को अनुपात के हिसाब से आरक्षण मुहैया कराएँ।

जातिगत जनगणना से BJP क्यों डरती है ?

🔹2011-12 में जो जातिगत जनगणना हुई, खाद्य सुरक्षा क़ानून जैसी कल्याणकारी योजना उसी आधार पर संभव हो सकी।

🔹मोदी सरकार ने 2015 में अरविंद पणगरिया कमेटी बनाकर जातियों का वर्गीकरण का कार्य शुरू कराया।यह क्यों किया गया तथा उसकी रिपोर्ट कहाँ है ?

अगर मोदी सरकार के मंत्री और उनका पूरा Eco System, OBC वर्ग की दिखावटी भलाई के लिए घड़ियाली आंसू बहाते रहते है, तो जातिगत जनगणना और Census 2021 एक साथ फ़ौरन क्यों नहीं कराते ? “Socio Economic Caste Census” यानि जातिगत जनगणना,Census का अभिन्न हिस्सा होना चाहिए। यही हमारी माँग है।

Pratap Mehta: Democracy in India - Democracy in the World  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Z43HDB010 Dickey Center for International Understanding  Apr 10, 2023
Pratap Mehta in conversation with Russ Muirhead April 6, 2023.  Full blown tyranny? How did we get there. https://youtu.be/W5Z43HDB010?t=281 Bewilderment . but can say.. RM modi is popular, and so far he has acquired legitamcy through proper electoral means. 2. unlike other right rulers, modi is less incompetent a manager of the economy . it will not face theeconomic  crisis that Left thinks.. Expansion of state capacity which will ensure that there is no brad based economic crisis

Still regime is authoritarian, control information order, Checks and balances in the insitutional strcuture have collapsed.

Fake Aadhaar, PAN Cards a Click Away: Report https://www.moneylife.in/article/fake-aadhaar-pan-cards-a-click-away-report/70495.html 
Moneylife Digital Team 19 April 2023 Culled Electoral Rolls, unverified EVM/VVPAT voting and counting, fake Voter IDs and massive money and media power...  Comment by MGD: Aadhar is now being aggressively linked with Voter ID with the active involvement of ECI... This, despite strong opposition from domain experts and civil society.. Citizens Commission on Elections also took a strong stand against this.. Yet government and ECI bulldozed it through.. Comment by SSen:  This would go against the Supreme Court verdict in the Aadhaar case. I. Supreme Court had mandated linking with Aadhaar compulsorily with PAN
Card and the ITR filed.
II. It's use is mandatory also for availing any welfare scheme of the State. That's all.
It cannot be used compulsorily for any other purpose. Doing otherwise would be an act of violation.

Fake Aadhaar, PAN Cards a Click Away https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/fake-aadhaar-pan-cards-a-click-away/articleshow/99504918.cms .. 15th APR 2023  Any person with some basic knowledge of the dark web can easily prepare a fake identity card of anybody using some websites and applications.

Online fraudsters get creative, come up with newer ways to dupe people in Visakhapatnam https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/online-fraudsters-get-creative-come-up-with-newer-ways-to-dupe-people-in-visakhapatnam/article66166003.ece  November 22, 2022
The latest being Aadhaar card fraud, in which an accused fabricated an Aadhaar card of the victim without her knowledge, says Police Commissioner

For criminals, Aadhaar is the easiest tool to cheat or dupe anyone, including lenders and individuals. With Aadhaar, anyone can easily get a SIM card, open a bank account, and obtain various things. The reason is there are no real-time checks when one submits Aadhaar as ID proof .. In fact, earlier this month, the Union government admitted that nearly 6%, or more than 60mn (million) dead people, still hold their Aadhaar numbers since there is no provision to delete or deactivate these numbers.   https://moneylife.in/article/nearly-6-crore-dead-people-still-have-aadhaar-numbers-govt/70358.html

RFID surveillance technology used in State  (Meghalaya) for first time  https://highlandpost.com/rfid-surveillance-technology-used-in-state-for-first-time/
Journalists stopped short by their own mug-shots   April 18, 2023 in Meghalaya,

Hi-tech surveillance technology debuted today into this hill state with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) issued to tag every delegate and visitor including media persons entering the premises of Hotel Courtyard Marriott, here for the two-day Space Economy Leaders Meeting (SELM) precursor event.

Journalists were the first to come uncomfortably face to face with impact of RFID tracking when some of them nonchalantly wandering around the venue in the course of their work, found themselves stopped short by their own mug-shots, name and designation, suddenly appearing on a big monitoring screen at the entrance of the conference hall of the G20 meet, with the legend in bold caps, “NOT ALLOWED” under the photo...the press had already been instructed that they are permitted to enter the conference hall only to cover the inaugural session. They do not have permission to cover the technical session of the meeting...However reporters being reporters, it is routine for them to loiter around the main venue, even if they are not allowed inside, to catch any delegates for a quick comment and/or seek interviews.