{"id":927332,"date":"2025-05-02T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=927332"},"modified":"2025-05-02T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T03:19:45","slug":"sc-ruling-on-digital-accessibility-as-part-of-right-to-life-and-liberty-can-bridge-the-digital-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/02\/sc-ruling-on-digital-accessibility-as-part-of-right-to-life-and-liberty-can-bridge-the-digital-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"SC ruling on digital accessibility as part of right to life and liberty can bridge the digital divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment in the &#8216;Pragya Prasun vs Union of India&#8217; and &#8216;Amar Jain vs Union of India&#8217; cases, declaring the right to digital access as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution. Authored by Justice R Mahadevan, and pronounced by a bench including Justice J B Pardiwala, the ruling addressed the exclusion of persons with disabilities, particularly acid attack survivors and visually impaired individuals, from digital KYC (eKYC) processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment in the &#8216;Pragya Prasun vs Union of India&#8217; and &#8216;Amar Jain vs Union of India&#8217; cases, declaring the right to digital access as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution. Authored by Justice R Mahadevan, and pronounced by a bench including Justice J B Pardiwala, the ruling addressed the exclusion of persons with disabilities, particularly acid attack survivors and visually impaired individuals, from digital KYC (eKYC) processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927332","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}