{"id":993977,"date":"2026-02-19T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993977"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:54:21","slug":"delhi-hc-notice-to-centre-on-plea-challenging-digital-data-protection-act-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/delhi-hc-notice-to-centre-on-plea-challenging-digital-data-protection-act-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC notice to Centre on plea challenging Digital Data Protection Act provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre, seeking its response on a petition challenging several provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (Act) and its Rules, including those concerning the constitution of the Data Protection Board and a clause empowering the Centre to exempt its own agencies from privacy safeguards, asserting that they establish an adjudicatory framework dependent on the executive.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyaya and justice Tejas Karia sought the Centre\u2019s response on a petition filed by a man named Dr Chandresh Jain, challenging sections 17 to 21, 23, 29, 33, 34, 36, 37 and 44 of the Act, along with the rules. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre, seeking its response on a petition challenging several provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (Act) and its Rules, including those concerning the constitution of the Data Protection Board and a clause empowering the Centre to exempt its own agencies from privacy safeguards, asserting that they establish an adjudicatory framework dependent on the executive. A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyaya and justice Tejas Karia sought the Centre\u2019s response on a petition filed by a man named Dr Chandresh Jain, challenging sections 17 to 21, 23, 29, 33, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993977","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}