{"id":1029749,"date":"2026-08-19T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029749"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:19:44","slug":"sc-notice-to-centre-on-pil-to-restrain-police-from-revealing-identity-of-accused-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/sc-notice-to-centre-on-pil-to-restrain-police-from-revealing-identity-of-accused-online\/","title":{"rendered":"SC notice to Centre on PIL to restrain police from revealing identity of accused online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre, states, Union Territories and social media platforms Meta and X on a PIL seeking directions to restrain the police from revealing identities of accused individuals or depicting them online in a dehumanising manner. <\/p>\n<p>A Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana asked the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and other respondents to spell out their respective stand on the PIL filed by one Hemendra Patel after senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan submitted for the petitioner that police uploading photographs and videos of accused persons on social media could prejudice their right to fair trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre, states, Union Territories and social media platforms Meta and X on a PIL seeking directions to restrain the police from revealing identities of accused individuals or depicting them online in a dehumanising manner. A Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana asked the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and other respondents to spell out their respective stand on the PIL filed by one Hemendra Patel after senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan submitted for the petitioner that police uploading photographs and videos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029778,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029749\/revisions\/1029778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}