Manav

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

Remember the truck full of stones that appeared near the CJP protest site in Jantar Mantar?

@ImAvdheshkumar traced the vehicle with its registration number. It was not a stray truck: the Delhi Police had seized it four days earlier
https://t.co/weHmvyvYb0

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

BREAKING:

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns.

[Ayush Tiwari @sighyush]

On @scroll_in: X-rays of journalist injured during July 20 protests show pellets lodged inside back and arm. Safdarjung Hospital confirmed pellet injuries.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Don’t politicise an issue created by politicians.

[Manav @why_manav]

@vinit_shenoy @shantanugoel That is funny. Your bar for something related to national security is too low.

[calle 🟥 @callebtc]

BREAKING: India bans mouth to mouth speech

"Since communications occur directly between nearby people through a decentralized sound network, speech organs can be misused to evade lawful surveillance, facilitate anonymous coordination"

[Manav @why_manav]

@vinit_shenoy @shantanugoel How is CJI blocking the court proceedings related to national security?

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

"This is called a pellet gun. His eye has been damaged. He cannot see properly from that eye. These are the future of India. Pellet guns have been fired at thousands of such young people. They have been beaten with lathis, assaulted, and attacked" - @RahulGandhi

[The Telegraph @ttindia]

This video widely circulated on social media, seems to show RAF personnel using shock-batons in Jantar Mantar during the Cockroach Janta Party-led 'Sansad Chalo' march to Parliament, on July 20.

#RAF #delhipolice #jantarmantar #cockroachjantaparty #cjp #cjpprotest

[Prateek Waghre @prateekwaghre]

Just a reminder that India's famed data protection act that was being heralded as some sort of watershed moment (it was not), does very little to protect you from this sort of state surveillance, and on the contrary, gives the government plenty of leeway to exempt itself.
a) things are allowed unless actually declared unlawful. [img 1] - Section 4(2)
b) allows a vague and wide range of things as 'certain legimiate uses' where the state can assume consent. [img 2,3] - Section 7
c) allows the state to exempt any part of itself, and any data gathered. [img 4] - Section 17(2)

[Siddharth @SidKeVichaar]

PEAK DICTATORSHIP😡

@YouTubeIndia has blocked Samdish Bhatia’s and Sarthak Goswami’s protest-related content in India

YouTube India should clarify whether it is acting under pressure from the Government of India and state the reasons being cited for blocking this content

[अश्विनी सोनी @Ramraajya]

प्राचीन समय में युद्ध के नियम होते थे बच्चों और महिलाओ पर वार ना करना और हथियार ना उठाना। #genz

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian.

New Delhi, 24 July 2026

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat.

The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored.

Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked.

BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off.

The order is illegal on at least four grounds.

1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts.

2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed.

3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code.

4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637.

The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code.

IFF demands that the Government of India:

1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub.
2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each.
3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers.

We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#BREAKING #SupremeCourt bans the posting or uploading of audio-video recordings of Court proceedings without the prior permission of the concerned Court.

Bench led by CJI Surya Kant passes an interim order that "there shall be no extraction, modification, dissemination, posting, re-posting, uploading or monetisation of audio/video recordings of the judicial proceedings on social media or other digital platforms without the prior permission of the Registrar General of the concerned High Courts or the Secretary General of the Supreme Court."

SC clarifies that the order has no effect on news reporting.

[jack @jack]

the government of india does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Delhi Police will initiate passport cancellation proceedings against individuals found involved in rioting, in addition to taking legal action under existing laws, top police sources said, signalling a tougher stance against those accused of participating in violent protests.

#DelhiPolice #ChaloSansad #ProtestViolence #ParliamentSecurity #Passport | https://t.co/astTo3ESj0

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

Real face of Delhi Police

That student first joined hands, then began to take the hits. When Delhi policeman realised that body hits are not working, he hit him right in the face with the rod.

Guy dropped unconscious the very next moment. MP Renuka Chowdhury and others came for his rescue.

And CJI doesn’t have time for this

[Mumbai Congress @INCMumbai]

एक वायरल वीडियो में दावा किया गया है कि @MumbaiPolice प्रदर्शन कर रहे छात्रों को धमका रही है कि अगर वे दोबारा प्रदर्शन करने लौटे, तो उन्हें झूठे ड्रग्स के मामले में फँसा दिया जाएगा और पूरी ज़िंदगी जेल में सड़ना पड़ेगा।

अगर यह सच है, तो यह सिर्फ़ छात्रों को डराने की कोशिश नहीं, बल्कि लोकतांत्रिक अधिकारों पर सीधा हमला है। अपनी आवाज़ उठाना अपराध नहीं है। छात्रों के सवालों का जवाब धमकियों से नहीं, जवाबदेही से दिया जाना चाहिए।

#Students #Mumbai #MumbaiPolice

@VarshaEGaikwad

[Ratna Singh @whattalawyer]

Delhi Police is detaining people near Nizamuddin Gol Chakkar and taking them to Badarpur Police Station.

Some of those detained today are minors.

Why are people being detained without being told the reason for their detention? At the very least, they deserve to know why they are being deprived of their liberty.

@DelhiPolice @Cockroachisback