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A video of comedian Harsh Gujral is going viral on social media. In it, he shares a humorous story about crime in Uttar Pradesh in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. While receiving an award on stage from the Chief Minister, Harsh narrated a real-life incident from Lucknow that also drew laughter from the audience. Yogi Adityanath was seen laughing at the comedians punchline. The video featuring Harsh and the Chief Minister is now making waves on social media.
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Digital Desk | Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) Comedian and actor Harsh Gujral once narrated an interesting incident about the diminishing rate of crime in Uttar Pradesh. An old video of the comedian-actor from UP Creators Summit & Awards 2026 has resurfaced on the internet, and it shows him recollecting the funny incident as he stood next to the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He said in his speech, Im telling you a real life example. I was in Lucknow for a show. I went out for a walk when I asked a shopkeeper selling bananas about the crime rate in UP. He said the crime rate has diminished a lot in UP. I asked him how he was so sure about that. He said, Im a criminal myself but Im not selling bananas. Thank you so much for this award, Uttar Pradesh Rocks. While the comedian-actor shared a personal anecdote, the National Crime Records Bureaus (NCRB) data shows fluctuations in Uttar Pradeshs registered crime rate over recent years. On a cursory glance, the rate stood at 225.3 cases per lakh population in 2016, climbed up to 278.2 in 2019 and reached 287.4 in 2020. It declined to 262.5 in 2021 and 171.6 in 2022, before it rose sharply to 335.3 in 2023. In 2023, UP recorded approximately 7.93 lakh cases under the Indian Penal Code and Special and Local Laws, while its crime rate remained below the national average of 448.3. Talking about Harsh Gujral, he made his Bollywood film debut with Mere Husband Ki Biwi, directed by Mudassar Aziz. The romantic comedy also starred Arjun Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar and Rakul Preet Singh in lead roles, with Gujral appearing in a supporting role. The film was released on February 21, 2025.
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Crime Branch Kashmir chargesheets UP resident for duping 12 Kashmiris in Rs 16.78 lakh fraud case
Srinagar, Oct 27: Crime Branch Kashmir (Special Crime Wing) has filed a charge-sheet before the Hon'ble Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srinagar, in connection with FIR No. 18/2022 registered at Police Station SCW, Kashmir, against accused Sunil Singh, S/o Arjun Singh, resident of Pratap Vihar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, for alleged offences punishable under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 5 read with Section 23 of the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019. The case originated from a complaint lodged by Abid Hussain Joo and 11 other residents of Srinagar, who alleged that they had been induced by the accused to invest their hard-earned money in a purported Forex investment venture operating under the name and style of Tronix Power & Capital Investment Programme, Delhi, on the promise of substantial returns within a short period. During the preliminary enquiry, it emerged that the accused had allegedly induced the complainants to invest their money through assurances of lucrative returns and subsequently cheated them, leading to the registration of the case. Investigation revealed that an aggregate amount of Rs. 16,78,500 had been transferred by the complainants through banking channels into bank accounts linked to the accused. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also conveyed that the aforesaid investment programme was not registered with it. Upon completion of the investigation and on the basis of the evidence collected, the charge-sheet has been submitted before the competent court for judicial consideration and further proceedings in accordance with law. Special Crime Wing Kashmir of Crime Branch J&K advised the public to exercise due diligence and verify the credentials and regulatory status of investment schemes with the competent authorities before investing their hard-earned money. It also urged the public to promptly report any suspected investment fraud to the concerned authorities.
Crime Branch Chargesheets Man in Rs 16.78 Lakh Investment Fraud
SRINAGAR: The Special Crime Wing of Crime Branch Kashmir has filed a charge-sheet against a man accused of allegedly cheating 12 residents of Kashmir of Rs 16.78 lakh by luring them into investing in a purported foreign exchange (Forex) investment scheme that promised substantial returns within a short period. The charge-sheet has been submitted before []
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WHEN PROTESTS ACROSS the world erupt regarding inequality within schools and neglected educational priorities, led primarily by students, there is hope that they are asking democracies to honour two connected promises: quality education for all and the freedom to demand it. Whether the questions revolve around missing teachers or broken infrastructure, the demand reflects the distance between equality promised within a democracy and the actual opportunity it provides or fails to provide. The school protests in France have been indicative of simple demands surrounding adequate staff, usable facilities, and fairer learning conditions. Reverberating these demands across multiple countries in Europe Spain, Portugal, even Germany - and in India, the Cockroach Janta Partys (CJP) School Thik Karo (Set Right the Schools) campaign makes a comparable demand by publicly scrutinising government schools. These demands fall within the scope of international defence of public education and democratic participation with a shared claim to equality, rather than evidence of a single, centrally organised worldwide movement. European Protests: What they Reveal, International Law, and Collective Rights In France, pupils in disadvantaged Paris suburbs have turned deplorable school conditions ranging from consistent teacher shortages, overcrowding, inadequate facilities, and inequality across neighbourhoods into a national political issue highlighting that ones address should not be the sole determinant of their future . Enrolment in public schools alone cannot ensure access to quality education. So the question is not merely about education budget or even policy, per se but rather who are the direct beneficiaries of an enhanced budget (if any)? Whether a mere national average is concealing the unequal burdens borne by particular communities, and even the unequal burdens of apparent neutral allocation may actually leave the children facing the greatest obstacles with the least institutional support. A placard in France read, Four riot police for one student/ One professor for thirty five. It underlined the pitiable conditions caused by shortage of teachers in French schools and heavy deployment of police forces to deal with protesters. Even though France seems to be leading the charge on the scale of protests, there seems to be a wider European concern regarding the state of schools ranging from Romanian teachers demonstrating against austerity measures, Greek students recurringly demanding better teachers, decent facilities, and meaningful investment in public education. Here, international law can be indicative, providing a framework for understanding these protests Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) protects peaceful assembly, and Article 19 protects freedom of expression. More often than not, in a democratic society, when read together, they safeguard essential means through which people question public decisions and organise demands for change. While this right is qualified by the touchstones of national security, public order, public safety, public health, morals, and the protection of others rights, these restrictions demand justification. Mere inconvenience or governmental embarrassment cannot be a substitute for showing why a particular restriction is necessary or proportionate . Even the mere disruption of traffic or everyday activity does not, by itself, constitute violence, and such a right to protest needs to be protected and enabled by the State. Peaceful disobedience , even with isolated violent acts, should not be automatically attributed to other participants or even to the entire assembly, which is largely peaceful. These distinctions matter when images of burning objects or clashes overwhelm discussion of a movements demands, where authorities have responded to violence and protect people from harm. However, the authorities have to assess individual conduct and the circumstances of the gathering and peaceful participants do not lose their rights individually or collectively simply because someone nearby commits an offence. Equally, a legitimate and overall peaceful educational demand does not make every protest tactic lawful, such as blocking access to a school, which can affect other childrens education; prolonged obstruction can raise serious competing interests. The legal task is to assess the actual conduct, harm, and available alternatives , as automatically organising every blockade is as inadequate as treating every disruptive gathering as a security threat. In this case, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) serves as an indicator of the scope and legal application of the right to peaceful assembly, particularly under Article 11. The European Court of Human Rights guidance recognises that authorities must tolerate a degree of disruption, while the extent and duration of the disturbance remain relevant, and identifies duties to take reasonable measures to enable lawful demonstrations to proceed peacefully. Recently, there has been an international recognition of collective action from the International Court of Justices Advisory Opinion (ICJ AO) on the right to strike under ILO Convention No. 87. The Court confirmed that the Convention protects workers right to strike , while leaving the precise content, scope and conditions of its exercise unresolved by not expressly mentioning that right . Highlighting these different international legal instruments is important, as a teachers strike involves the withdrawal of labour, whereas a student demonstration or parents rally engages the separate protections of expression and peaceful assembly. These actions may converge around the same demand for functioning public schools, but their legal foundations remain distinct. While the ICJ AO did not establish a general right to protest or automatically legitimise every school blockade, its relevance to the wider argument is that international law recognises collective action as a protected means of defending interests. This recognition challenges the expectation that those affected by institutional failures should confine themselves to deferential requests. The Hungarian Protests showcase this collective action, as Teachers and students opposed changes to educators working conditions and restrictions affecting their collective action . In 2023, the European Trade Union Committee for Education criticised legislation adopted despite sustained protests and urged meaningful consultation; the ability of teachers to defend their profession belongs within the debate over the quality of education children receive. While these international legal instruments reflect the rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of expression, and collective rights in the European context, these rights have been contextualised in the context of Indias protests. The ICCPR binds its contracting states, including France and India ; the ECHR and ILO bind France and other European nations but not India. Its jurisprudence nevertheless offers a useful comparative perspective alongside the separate obligations India bears under the ICCPR. Hence, the legal case for protecting peaceful school protests rests on Indias own constitutional guarantees and its applicable international human rights obligations. Even with these restraints, European protests offer an uncomplicated model for India to emulate, as its own schools and governments face similar concerns regarding the quality of education and, therefore, equality of opportunity. The value of the comparison lies in recognising that material prosperity and an enhanced education budget (8.27% increase) or a new educational policy do not automatically secure a fair public education system. Political choices still determine which children receive reliable public provision and which are expected to tolerate its deterioration. Indias Parallel Demand In India, protests stemming from the NEET paper leak scandal (following irregularities in the medical entrance test) have now snowballed into the recent controversy over Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and questionable functioning of the Chief Election Commission er. However, between the two distinct protests, there was a call for a campaign often described as a movement to save schools, reported under the name School Thik Karo. Announced by CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, the leader behind the NEET Protests and the SIR Protests, the initiative invites parents and village representatives to inspect government schools to ascertain if electricity, safe drinking water, toilet facilities, and mid-day meals are provided to children or not. It also calls them to document deficiencies through forms and videos. The method matters, as CJP asked for a social audit and turns a broad allegation of neglect into questions that an administration should answer. Is the water available? Do the toilets work? Who must authorise repairs? When will the deficiency be corrected? Such questions connect everyday experience with public responsibility. The campaign has also announced an Adivasi School Thik Karo initiative to document conditions in tribal areas across several states. Its announced focus on teachers and basic facilities makes the distributional question explicit: whose schools receive sustained public attention? There are important differences between a French suburban lyce and an Indian village school. Caste, tribal marginalisation, geography, language and household resources require attention on their own terms. Nevertheless, both settings invite the same democratic test: does the public system offer children a credible opportunity to learn, irrespective of the social position into which they were born? Community participation must also have limits, and the right to access equitable education should not be a mere burden on the parents. Parents should not have to finance essential repairs or repeatedly publicise deprivation before officials act to address it. Citizen audits can expose failures; responsibility for remedying them remains with public authorities. The substantive basis for the right to education also exists in international and national law. For instance Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), provides that education must be . At the national context in India Article 21A of the Constitution of India mandates that The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the State may, by law, determine. Article 2 of the ICESCR requires states to take steps towards realising Covenant rights using the maximum of their available resources, while guaranteeing non-discrimination. The requirements enshrined in Articles 2 and 13 of the ICESCR emphasise that there should be functioning institutions providing access without discrimination . These also underline the necessity for ensuring quality education, responsive to learners needs. While financial constraints are real and Governments must choose between competing demands, international law does not erase those choices. An appeal to limited resources should prompt scrutiny of spending decisions, rather than close discussion of neglected schools, especially with yearly increases in education allocations. As stated earlier India already has a constitutional foundation for this scrutiny through Article 21A, which guarantees free and compulsory education for children aged six to fourteen, and Article 19, which protects citizens freedom of expression and peaceful, unarmed assembly, subject to constitutional restrictions. Demands for better schools and the freedom to voice them therefore belong within Indias own constitutional commitments.These constitutional safeguards are also backed by legislative action under the Right to Education Act, which requires school norms to include access to drinking water and toilet facilities. Asking whether these exist is a request for compliance with and enforcement of an established legal framework, not merely an unnecessary demand. These protests or public audits are emboldened by the fact that children, and even future generations, have concrete rights, such as the right to express views on matters affecting them under Article 12 and the freedoms of association and peaceful assembly under Article 15 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). These rights have been invoked by youth globally for climate change and affirmed by the Supreme Court of India for the rights of future generations, as well as by the ICJs Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. Democracy Must Answer Hence, peaceful protest is a hallmark of democracy because elections cannot communicate every grievance or correct every administrative failure. Between elections, collective action enables people with little individual influence to make neglected conditions visible. Its democratic value is especially clear when those people cannot vote at all. This wider international mobilisation around education contains different histories, organisations and demands, and Indias campaigns need no European endorsement. Their resonance with European struggles demonstrates how widely citizens are questioning the unequal provision of institutions that governments describe as universal. While European students can be admired as politically aware, Indian children making comparable demands are dismissed as manipulated or disruptive. The standard should remain consistent across borders. Ask whether participation is peaceful, whether the grievance deserves investigation and whether the states response respects rights. From France to India, those demanding decent schools are asking which lesson their governments intend to deliver. A well-functioning democracy teaches its children something through every response to protest: that public promises are open to challenge and that institutions must explain their failures, or it can teach them that equality belongs in textbooks while obedience governs everyday life.
WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA , through the Preamble of the Constitution, apart from solemnly resolving to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC vowed to secure to all its citizens, among others, liberty of thought, expression The sanctity of liberty of thought and expression is inviolable regardless of any development including unprecedented technological innovations taking place during the last two decades. Therefore, privacy, integrally associated with liberty of thought, has now been reckoned with as key aspects of right to life, dignity and freedom. It is well documented that privacy has always changed with technology. As new tools make it easier to observe, record and analyse and surveil people, the law must reconsider the limits of that access. The internet changed privacy from a concern about physical space to a concern about personal information. Smartphones, biometric systems, facial recognition and artificial intelligence have expanded that concern even further. Neurotechnology takes the issue to a deeper level. Traditional surveillance usually observes what a person does or says. Neurotechnology may go further by recording or analysing neural activity and drawing conclusions about attention, memory, emotions, cognitive abilities and, perhaps one day, intentions. This raises a difficult question: If privacy protects a persons private life, should it also protect the mind from unauthorised technological access and influence? This question is particularly important in India. In Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India , the Supreme Court recognised privacy as a fundamental right connected with dignity, liberty and personal autonomy. Privacy is not limited to secrecy or physical seclusion. It includes bodily privacy, decisional freedom and control over personal information. The decision in Selvi v. State of Karnataka is also significant. While considering involuntary narco-analysis, polygraph tests and Brain Electrical Activation Profile tests, the Supreme Court recognised that privacy includes the realm of mental processes. The fact that a technology exists does not mean that the State may automatically use it. Its use must respect autonomy, dignity and the protection against compelled disclosure of personal knowledge. These decisions provide a constitutional foundation for neuro-privacy. Even though the Constitution does not expressly use that term, Articles 14, 19, 20(3) and 21 contain principles that can protect people from unjustified interference with their neural information and mental processes. What Neuro-Privacy Means Brain data or neural data can include raw information recorded directly from neural activity, such as electrical signals collected through an electroencephalogram or an implanted device. It can also include conclusions produced when artificial intelligence analyses those signals. The concern is therefore not limited to what a device directly records. A system may try to infer whether a person is tired, distracted, anxious, emotionally distressed or likely to behave in a particular way. The person may never have consciously revealed this information. An algorithm may nevertheless attempt to construct a profile from neural or related physiological signals. This makes inference as important as collection. A persons neural signals can become the starting point for creating new information about their mental and emotional life. A legal framework that protects only information deliberately disclosed by an individual would not be sufficient. Neuro-privacy can therefore be understood as the right to control access to, collection, analysis, inference, sharing and use of information connected with neural activity and mental processes. It need not initially be recognised as a completely separate constitutional right. It can develop as a specific application of existing protections relating to privacy, dignity, bodily integrity, personal liberty, decisional autonomy and freedom of thought. Why Brain Data Is Different Brain data deserves special care not simply because it is sensitive, but because of what it may reveal. An address can show where someone lives. A purchase history can suggest economic preferences. A medical record can reveal a physical condition. Neural information may reveal how a person thinks, remembers, feels, reacts and makes decisions. The brain is not merely another source of biometric information. A fingerprint mainly identifies a person, and a photograph records their appearance. Neural data may expose or generate conclusions about a persons inner life. That creates a direct connection between data processing and mental autonomy. Artificial intelligence makes this risk greater. A neural signal that seems meaningless on its own may become significant when processed by a sophisticated model. Such conclusions could affect employment, education, healthcare, insurance, criminal investigation, political communication and consumer decisions. The issue is not only brain reading. It is also brain inference: the creation of a probable picture of a persons mental state without a conscious statement from that person. The law must address both. Article 21 and Mental Autonomy Article 21 offers the strongest constitutional basis for protecting neuro-privacy. The Supreme Court has understood Article 21 as protecting dignity, liberty and the freedom to develop ones personality. Privacy makes meaningful choices possible. If the Constitution protects the body and intimate personal decisions from unjustified interference, it should also protect the mental sphere. A person should not be treated merely as an object to be watched, predicted, classified or influenced. Unauthorised access to neural information may affect how people form beliefs, make decisions and exercise their freedom. Mental privacy should therefore include the right to decide whether, when and why another person or institution may access and interpret information about ones mental processes. This may be described as mental or cognitive autonomy. It means having control over ones thoughts, mental experiences, cognitive responses and psychological information. It also includes protection against systems designed to predict or influence mental states without genuine authorisation. The related idea of mental integrity is equally important. Physical integrity protects the body. Informational integrity protects personal information. Mental integrity protects the cognitive and psychological sphere. A device that enters the body, records neural activity and influences brain function may threaten all three forms of integrity at once. Article 19 and Freedom of Thought Freedom of speech and expression depends on the freedom to form, change and communicate beliefs. People need an internal space where they can think without feeling that every reaction is being measured. The danger is greater when governments, political parties or companies use neural and behavioural data to identify mental vulnerabilities and target people through them. Persuasion can become manipulation when it relies on hidden information about a persons emotional or cognitive susceptibility. Democracy requires citizens to form political opinions independently. Protecting an unmonitored mental sphere supports dissent, independent judgment and the freedom to develop unpopular or unconventional ideas. Why Consent Is Not Enough Consent is important, but it cannot be the only protection. Consent may not be meaningful when there is a strong imbalance of power. For example, an employer may ask workers to wear a device that measures attention, fatigue or emotional engagement. An employee may technically agree, but economic dependence may make refusal unrealistic. A school may similarly require children to use attention-monitoring technology, leaving families with little genuine choice. Consumers face another problem. They may accept long privacy policies without understanding how neural information could later be used for artificial-intelligence training, health predictions, behavioural profiling or targeted advertising. People also cannot reliably predict what future technologies may infer from information collected today. Consent should therefore be supported by clear limits on purpose, necessity, proportionality, data collection, retention and harmful inference. It should be specific, informed, voluntary and revocable. It must not become a legal fiction through which people permanently surrender control over information about their minds. Artificial Intelligence and Inference Artificial intelligence can identify patterns in large amounts of data and produce predictions that human observers may not be able to make. As these systems improve, the value of neural data may increase. More data may lead to better models, better models may produce more detailed inferences, and those inferences may create pressure to collect even more data. The law should not assume that information may be collected simply because it could be useful in the future. Technological possibility is not the same as legal necessity. Purpose limitation and data minimisation should apply to the original collection as well as to later model development, profiling and inference. Should Brain Data Receive Enhanced Protection? Brain data should receive enhanced protection under Indian law. However, merely adding it to a list of sensitive personal information would not solve the entire problem. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 uses a broad framework for personal data and does not follow the earlier model of separately classifying sensitive personal data. Neural information may therefore fall within personal data generally, but information capable of revealing or predicting mental processes deserves more focused safeguards. Protection should cover at least: Raw neural signals and recordings; Information about neurological or cognitive conditions; Data concerning emotional and mental states; Neural biometric information; AI-generated conclusions about cognition, emotion, memory or intention; Behavioural or multimodal data capable of producing similar mental-state inferences. The law should be technologically neutral. If protection applies only to information collected through a brain sensor, organisations may use other forms of data to reach similar conclusions. The sensitivity of the inference and the consequences of its use should matter as much as the source of the data. The Right Not to Know and Mental Silence Neurotechnology may create a new form of autonomy: the right not to know. Suppose a system predicts that a person may develop a neurological condition in the future. Should that prediction automatically be disclosed ? The answer is difficult, especially when the prediction is uncertain. Such information may affect employment, insurance, family relationships and mental well-being. It may create fear or stigma even if it later proves wrong. People should therefore have a say in whether they receive certain predictions about their own neurological or mental condition. Neuro-privacy is not only about keeping information secret. It is also about controlling ones relationship with information about oneself. The right to mental silence is similarly important. If people know that their attention, emotions or cognitive responses are constantly monitored, they may change their behaviour and even their thoughts because they expect to be observed. This could create a new chilling effect. Freedom of thought requires an inner space where people can explore ideas, question beliefs and experience emotions without fearing that every response will become data. Mental privacy is therefore necessary not only for individual dignity but also for intellectual freedom and democracy. From Neuro-Reading to Neuro-Manipulation The debate should not stop at reading or inferring information from the brain. The more serious future concern may be the ability to influence neural activity. Neuro-reading involves extracting or interpreting information from neural signals. Neuro-writing involves influencing, modifying or stimulating neural processes. Neuro-writing raises difficult questions about identity, responsibility, consent and autonomy that ordinary data-protection law cannot fully answer. If technology moves from observing the mind to changing it, the law will need to protect both informational access to the mind and freedom from unwanted technological influence. Developing an Indian Framework India should develop a comprehensive neuro-privacy framework within constitutional law and data-protection law. It should treat neural information as high-risk personal information and cover both directly measured signals and AI-generated mental-state inferences. The framework should provide for: Specific, informed and revocable consent; Strict limits on secondary use and repurposing; Data minimisation and short retention periods; Impact assessments for high-risk processing; Tight limits on workplace monitoring, except in narrowly defined safety-critical settings; Prohibition or strict control of routine neural monitoring in schools; Protection against discrimination by employers, insurers, schools and political organisations; Judicial or independent authorisation for highly intrusive State uses; Rights to access, correct and delete information; Clear explanations of automated conclusions about mental or cognitive characteristics; Effective remedies, compensation and institutional accountability. The law should also consider the consequences of processing. Recording neural activity may create one level of risk. Using an inferred emotional or cognitive profile to deny employment, change insurance terms or influence political behaviour creates a much greater risk. Protection should reflect both the sensitivity of the information and the importance of the decision affected by it. Cognitive Liberty Cognitive liberty means the freedom to govern ones own mental processes and remain free from unjustified interference with thought and cognition. Indian courts need not immediately declare it to be a completely separate fundamental right. A cautious approach would develop it from the combined values of Articles 14, 19, 20(3) and 21, including privacy, bodily integrity, freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, decisional autonomy and personal liberty. This approach would allow constitutional law to respond to new technology without creating unnecessary categories of rights. If future developments make existing protections inadequate, Parliament and the courts may later consider more explicit recognition. From Data Protection to Human Protection Neuro-privacy should not be treated as merely another part of data protection. Data protection asks how information should be collected, processed, stored and shared. Neuro-privacy raises an earlier question: should certain forms of access to the human mind be allowed at all, even when a person has formally consented? Ordinary compliance procedures and financial penalties may not always be enough. A violation of mental privacy can be irreversible. Once information about a persons mental processes has been extracted, analysed or shared, deleting the original file may not restore the persons previous privacy. The individual is not merely a data subject. The individual is a constitutional person whose dignity and autonomy place limits on what technology may extract from the body and mind. Conclusion One of the most important privacy questions of this century may be who can access the human mind. Neurotechnology challenges the old boundary between what people voluntarily communicate and what technology can infer without any word uttered by them. Indias Constitution has strong principles for responding to this challenge. Puttaswamy supports privacy, dignity, autonomy and control over personal information. Selvi is especially relevant because it recognises the constitutional importance of mental processes and limits compelled access to them. Together, Articles 14, 19, 20(3) and 21 support protection against arbitrary classification, covert manipulation, compelled neural evidence and unjustified interference with mental autonomy. Brain data should therefore receive heightened legal protection in India. But the goal should be greater than simply adding brain data to a statutory list. The deeper goal is to protect mental privacy, cognitive liberty and mental integrity. Neurotechnology can serve valuable purposes, including restoring communication, treating disease and assisting persons with disabilities. It can also enable surveillance, discrimination, coercion and manipulation. The right response is neither to ban innovation nor to leave it unregulated. It is to build a rights-based framework that permits responsible uses while protecting human freedom. The real question is not whether technology should help us understand the brain. It is whether the power to understand the brain will become the power to control the person. Technological ability does not create a legal right to enter someones mind. protecting the individuals ability to remain an autonomous human being. The Constitution protects more than what people own, say or do. It also protects the conditions that allow people to think, choose, believe, dissent, imagine and become who they are. As technology approaches the mind, protecting that inner freedom may become one of the most important constitutional tasks of our time. Privacy should not end where the skull begins!
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The ongoing discussion around ScoutOP, Love Gill and Kaashvi Hiranandani took another turn during the latest Weekend Ka Vaar episode of Bigg Boss 20, hosted by Rohit Shetty. Kaashvi, ScoutOPs girlfriend, confronted him about his growing physical closeness with Love inside the Bigg Boss house. Following the episode, Love Gills team issued a strongly worded statement defending the actress and addressing the criticism directed at her. During her interaction with ScoutOP, Kaashvi sarcastically asked him, How is the massage parlour going, Tanmay? The remark referred to his interactions with Love, including instances where he was seen massaging her feet, hands and neck. Kaashvi also told Scout that Love had allegedly trapped him, saying, Usne aapko phasaya hai aur aap phas gaye. She further expressed discomfort over the nature of their bond and said it appeared different from Scouts interactions with other housemates. According to her, the equation had also made members of her family uncomfortable. Love Gills team defends her Following the episode, Love Gills team released a statement strongly objecting to the criticism directed at her. The statement said the situation had left Loves family deeply distressed and questioned why she was being held responsible for Scouts feelings. The human heart can only take so much before silence becomes a scream. Watching Love Gill stand utterly alone tonight - defenseless while her entire character was torn to shreds on national television - was nothing short of agonizing. Her family is destroyed. Shattered into pieces, the statement read. The team also spoke about the impact of watching the controversy unfold from outside the Bigg Boss house, particularly for Loves family. Imagine being a mother, sitting at home, helpless as you watch the world ruthlessly vilify the daughter you raised. Imagine watching her take the blame for a man's uncurbed emotions, while opportunistic influencers and clout-chasers turn her pain into content for likes, views, and headlines, it added. Why is a grown man treated like a victim of hypnosis? According to Loves team, she had always considered Scout a brother and did not intend to cross that boundary. From day one, Loves boundaries were clear: Scout was a brother to her. Period. Yet, the moment a grown man blurred those boundaries and confessed his feelings, society executed its oldest, most toxic double standard: blame the woman, the statement said. It further questioned why Love was being portrayed as responsible for Scouts emotions. Why is a grown man treated like a victim of hypnosis, while a girl is painted as a calculated temptress? Why is she expected to carry the burden, the shame, and the humiliation for feelings she never asked for and never reciprocated? the team asked. Love shouldnt have to bleed to protect another womans fragile reality. She shouldnt have to surrender her dignity just because someone else lacks the courage to hold their own partner accountable, it stated. She deserved empathy, not cruelty Loves team went on to describe the episode as deeply humiliating for her and accused the public discourse around the situation of turning into an attack on her character. Love Gill didnt just stand there in silence tonight-she endured a public execution of her character. She deserved to be heard, respected, and protected. Instead, she was humiliated and sacrificed at the altar of public judgment, the statement read. The team concluded by reiterating its position that Love should not be held responsible for Scouts choices. No woman should ever have to pay for a mans choices. No family should ever have to watch their child be broken like this. Love Gill deserved empathy, not cruelty. She deserved justice, not a character assassination, the statement concluded. The development adds another layer to the ongoing discussion around ScoutOP and Love Gills equation inside the Bigg Boss 20 house, particularly after Kaashvis direct confrontation with Scout during Weekend Ka Vaar. Also Read:Bigg Boss 20: Mahhi Vij calls Aamrapali Dubey a sack of potatoes amid repeated body-shaming remarks
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Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. With these words ends the 1942 masterpiece, Casablanca, as Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) somehow makes Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) find humanity, hinting at the two join the Resistance in Nazi Occupied France during World War II.
