INFORMAZIONI SU QUESTO EPISODIO
Is accessing the Internet a fundamental right? A recent judgment affirmed that since so many essential services depend on the internet, shutting down access to the internet is tantamount to a violation of fundamental rights. We look at a worrying trend in India: a frequent resort to doing precisely this. We also look at the qualification of ‘public purpose’ in the state acquiring property and how this was a contentious matter between the judiciary and parliament in the 1950s. And yes, how a freedom fighter continued to fight for freedom in independent India! Tune in!
On Kashmir and internet shutdowns
-https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49234708
-https://indiankanoon.org/doc/82461587/
On ‘violent words’ and ‘public order’
-https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/lohia
On the fundamental right to property
-Wahi, Namrata, 2016, “Property”, in Choudhry, Sujit (et al), The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, (OUP: New Delhi).
-https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1890860/
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