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GS-2SURVEILLANCE AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

Delhi Police Defends Facial Recognition on Accuracy. Puttaswamy Asks About Authority First.

The Court's framing - testing "proportionality" - invokes the four-pronged standard from K.S. Puttaswamy vs Union of India (2017), which requires not just that a surveillance measure be effective and narrowly targeted, but that it rest on legislative backing in the first place; Delhi Police's affidavit defends FRS on accuracy and necessity but does not point to a specific statute authorising its use.

Sub TopicTHE MISSING FIRST PRONG OF THE PUTTASWAMY TESTSourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THE…
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GS-2STATE EXECUTIVE POWER AND RULES OF BUSINESS

Maharashtra Just Gave Its CM the Power a Court Said He Didn't Have

The new Rules of Business were framed under Article 166(3) of the Constitution - a provision meant only to organise how state business is transacted - but are being used here to grant the Chief Minister precisely the substantive override power a High Court had explicitly ruled he lacked, raising the question of whether procedural rule-making can supply what adjudicated law denied.

Sub TopicARTICLE 166(3) AND THE LIMITS OF CABINET COLLEGIALITYSourceINDIAN EXPRESS, NDTV, TIMES OF…
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GS-2DIGITAL CENSORSHIP AND IT RULES

One Blocking Order Every 68 Seconds: What the Three-Hour Rule Actually Removed

The scale and speed of the alleged blocking orders raise a structural question about Section 69A of the IT Act: the Shreya Singhal judgment upheld it in 2015 on the strength of its procedural safeguards, but those safeguards assumed a review process slower than the three-hour compliance window platforms now operate under.

Sub TopicSECTION 69A AND THE THREE-HOUR TAKEDOWN MANDATESourceTHE HINDU, INDIA TODAY, THE NEWS…
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GS-2CENSUS AND CASTE ENUMERATION

46 Lakh Names, One Repeated Mistake: Census 2027's Caste Question

This is Independent India's first attempt to enumerate caste beyond Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the choice of an unstructured "open field" for non-SC/ST respondents - rather than a standardised drop-down as used for SC/ST caste names - raises the same data-quality risk that made the 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census's caste data unusable for policy.

Sub TopicMETHODOLOGY GAPS IN INDIA'S FIRST GENERAL CASTE COUNTSourceOFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL…
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GS-2JUDICIAL POWERS AND PROTEST RIGHTS

Why the Supreme Court Is Using Article 142, Not New Law, to Save NEET Protesters

The Court's willingness to use Article 142 - reserved for "complete justice" in exceptional cases - to quash FIRs against an entire class of protesters, rather than requiring case-by-case bail or quashing petitions, signals that ordinary criminal procedure was seen as inadequate to fix the state's own failure to distinguish protesters from infiltrators.

Sub TopicARTICLE 142 AND THE LIMITS OF POLICE DISCRETIONSourceTHE HINDU, INDIAN EXPRESS…
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