Rush Hour: SC orders release of detained minors, Meta summoned after Modi’s post removed & more
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The Supreme Court directed states to release minors taken into custody during the youth protests against the alleged mismanagement of competitive examinations, as well as those without any prior criminal record. The court said it may set up a high-powered investigation team to examine allegations of police excesses during the July 20 march to Parliament.
During the protest, several demonstrators were injured after the security personnel used lathis, fired tear gas and pellet guns to disperse the crowd.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant was on Tuesday hearing a batch of petitions alleging that the police used excessive force against the protesters. The petitioners sought nationwide guidelines to regulate police action during protests, including a ban on deploying plainclothes personnel for crowd-control duties. Read on.
The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology summoned social media platform Meta after a video posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly taken down on Facebook. The development came even as the platform said that the video “was removed in error and has since been restored”.
Ministry Secretary S Krishnan said the company’s reasoning that it happened because of a “technical error” was not “acceptable in its entirety”.
On Thursday, the prime minister posted a late-night video message on social media assuring strict action...