However, a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra refrained from handing over the probe to the CBI and directed that the trial be fast-tracked to ensure there was no delay.
The hits and misses of the week.
Privacy allows people a space where they can refuse to conform. And it is in that space where liberty flourishes.
One of the crucial features of the right to privacy judgment is the understanding that democracy is founded on pluralism and diversity, and pluralism and diversity begin in the mind, says Gautam Bhatia.
The top court gave the examples of personal information like thumb impression people voluntarily gave for using mobile phones.
The hits and misses of the week.
Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, representing the Muslim parties in the case, tore up a pictorial map.
The apex court also put embargo on filing of any fresh writ petition challenging constitutional validity on abrogation of Article 370.
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