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Delhi High Court dismisses plea seeking voting rights for prisoners

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Delhi High Court dismisses plea seeking voting rights for prisoners The high court said in view of the apex court rulings and the statutory position, it saw no reason to entertain the plea, and dismissed it Current Affairs : The Delhi High Court has expelled a PIL looking for casting a ballot rights for detainees, saying the office was given under the law and it very well may be removed by law. A seat of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar said the Supreme Court has held that the privilege to make choice was neither a major right nor a custom-based law right and was just given by a resolution. The seat noticed the privilege to cast a ballot gave under the resolution Representation of the People Act was dependent upon limitations forced by the law, which doesn’t permit detainees to make choice from correctional facilities. The high court said in perspective on the pinnacle court decisions and the statutory position, it saw no motivation to engage the supp...

Emulating China: India seeks to adopt facial recognition system for police

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Emulating China: India seeks to adopt facial recognition system for police The government says the move is designed to help one of the world’s most understaffed police forces, which has one officer for every 724 citizens Current Affairs  :- India is wanting to set up one of the world’s biggest facial acknowledgment frameworks, conceivably a rewarding open door for observation organizations and a bad dream for security advocates who dread it will prompt a Chinese-style Orwellian state. PM Narendra Modi’s legislature will open offers one month from now to assemble a framework to concentrate facial acknowledgment information caught through observation cameras crosswise over India. It would connection up with databases containing records for everything from international IDs to fingerprints to enable India’s exhausted police to power distinguish culprits, missing people and dead bodies. The administration says the move is intended to help one of the world’s most underst...