NLU Delhi Project 39A - Fair Trial Fellowship is organizing a anel discussion on India’s bail system, it’s faultless and the ways forward. The topic for the panel discussion is ‘Untangling Bail.
Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, who is now an MP, outside Parliament. | Prakash Singh/ AFP
Judicial independence is a necessary condition for democracy since it acts as a check to authoritarian power. However, a hallmark of the Narendra Modi years has been the inability of the courts to review even egregious acts of the Union government, such as Kashmir’s long communications blockade.
Now alarming new revelations show that the situation could be much worse than suspected.
Since July 18, hundreds of names from a leaked database of phone numbers have been published by a consortium of journalists across the world. The names reflect potential targets of illegal cyber surveillance using Pegasus, an Israel-made spying software so uniquely powerful that some experts have called it a “weapon”.
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