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Delhi High Court | ‘Postings on Facebook cannot be treated as determinative of the location of a person at a particular point of time’

The Delhi High Court held that Facebook posts cannot be treated as determinative of the location of a person at a particular point of time. Therefore, the Court set aside the order of Intellectual Property Appellate Board and restored the rectification petitions filed before the Intellectual Property Appellate Board for re-hearing.

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Gau HC | “Prima facie her personal views”; HC grants bail to the writer charged with sedition for her facebook post on maoist attack in Chattisgarh

Gauhati High Court: The Bench of Ajit Borthakur, J., granted bail to the renowned Assamese writer, Sikha Sarma in connection with sedition

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Megh HC | “Facebook post sought to create a divide to cordial relationship between tribal & non-tribal living in Meghalaya”; Criminal Case against journalist refused to be quashed over Facebook post

Meghalaya High Court: W. Diengdoh, J., while refusing to quash a criminal case against a journalist as the Facebook post shared by the

Case Briefs High Courts

Jhar HC | Government employee denied anticipatory bail for posting derogatory remarks against Malaysian woman regarding spreading coronavirus

Jharkhand High Court: Rongon Mukhopadhyay J., rejected anticipatory bail to the ground in light of facts and submissions in the instant case.

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UKSC | Not wise to search a Facebook post for its theoretical or logically deducible meaning, defamation case filed on basis of such post dismissed

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: “He tried to strangle me.” What would those words convey to an ordinary reasonable reader of