Three Facebook pages, a defamation suit and a warning about AI: a Chandigarh court has ordered Facebook to block the pages over AI-generated videos allegedly targeting a Congress leader, observing that unchecked AI manipulation may harm democracy. Chandigarh: Until the next hearing, Facebook must immediately suspend or block public access to three pages, a Chandigarh […]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a challenge to the demolition of structures raised on agricultural land within the Chandigarh Periphery ‘Control Area’, holding that a General Power of Attorney or similar document confers no title and cannot regularise unauthorised construction. Livelihood, the Court held, cannot be a licence to violate the periphery-control law. Only the unauthorised structures, not the land, are to be removed.
The Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana’s Privilege Committee has given a clean chit to 17 lawyers and M3M directors in the alleged bench hunting case before the High Court, citing no evidence of wrongdoing. The committee said media reports misrepresented the court proceedings and found “no mala fide intent” among those involved.
