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9 arrested accused seek verification of data with ‘hash values’ of the original

9 arrested accused seek verification of data with ‘hash values’ of the original

The Indian Express / by Espress News Service

The court had ordered a verification process to be conducted on Tuesday in presence of four persons, including cyber experts nominated by the defence.
The nine arrested accused in the Elgaar Parishad case on Tuesday submitted an application to the court seeking that copies of the “seized data” given to them by the prosecution should be verified with the help of ‘hash values’ of the data recovered at the time of the purported seizure, back in 2018.
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Verification of e-documents underway at special court

Verification of e-documents underway at special court

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

The judge of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) court, which is hearing the Elgar Parishad case, had called for an expert on behalf of the accused to verify the veracity of the electronic documents provided to the accused, on Tuesday.
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Anand Teltumbde: These are dangerous people with state power, no option but to fight

Anand Teltumbde: These are dangerous people with state power, no option but to fight

The News Minute / interview by Nandini Nair

Scholar, writer and activist Anand Teltumbde’s voice cracks unnoticeably when he speaks about his mother, the woman who worked hard with her husband to raise their children in a village in Maharashtra. Anand was answering journalist Nandini Nair’s question on his mother and daughters at a session at the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode, where the two were in conversation on the subject ‘Annihilation of caste’.
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Israeli Court Bans Media From Pegasus Spyware Case Trials

Israeli Court Bans Media From Pegasus Spyware Case Trials

News Click / by Peoples Dispatch

Israeli company NSO exports the Pegasus spyware, which has been used by governments across the world against opposition activists and journalists, including in India.
In an apparent move to save the NSO group – owner of the Pegasus spyware – from public criticism, an Israeli court cited national security concerns and ordered a closed-door hearing in the case against the company.
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State officials among those who bought the spyware: Digvijay

State officials among those who bought the spyware: Digvijay

Mumbai Mirror / by Shruti Ganapatye

WhatsApp privacy breach: Spyware Pegasus was used to snoop on activists, journalists, political dissidents; state home minister promises probe.
Four months after WhatsApp made a sensational disclosure that Israeli spyware Pegasus was used to snoop on some Indian citizens, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh claimed yesterday that the Maharashtra government officials had visited Israel to purchase the technology.
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Poor Medical Care for Prisoners Explains Why Number of Custodial Deaths Is Only Rising

Poor Medical Care for Prisoners Explains Why Number of Custodial Deaths Is Only Rising


Drawing by Arun Ferreire

The Wire / by Sukanya Shantha

In 2018, 1,845 people died while incarcerated. That’s the highest number India has seen so far.
Mumbai: “I would see this one prison inmate being brought to the hospital every day for an entire week, and each time turned away. The escort police would invariably walk in around 2:30-3 pm, over an hour after the OPD (out-patient department) hours, and no doctor would be available to treat patients then. The inmate went untreated for over a week,” recalls a young doctor at Maharashtra’s state-run JJ hospital.
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Defence submits list of four cyber ‘experts’ for verification of seized data

Defence submits list of four cyber ‘experts’ for verification of seized data

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

The four experts include advocate Gaurav Jachak, IT expert Supratik Chakraborty and lawyers Surendra Gadling and Arun Ferriera, who were arrested in the case.
Following the direction of a special court in Pune, defence lawyers Monday submitted a list of four cyber “experts” for verification of the copies of the seized data handed over by prosecution to the people arrested in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case.
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ELGAR ACCUSED NOMINATE IIT PROFESSOR TO VERIFY DOCUMENTS HANDED OVER BY PUNE POLICE

14/01/2020

The Hindustan Times / by Shalaka Shinde

The verification process will take place in the video conferencing room of the court on January 21.
The nine activists arrested in the Elgar Parishad case have nominated computer scientist Supratik Chakraborty, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Powai, to verify seized electronic documents handed over to them by the Pune police.
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