HC questions ruling on court record searches
New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday questioned a single judge's direction requiring legal database platform Indian Kanoon to de-index and disable name-based searches for court records across its platforms and domains to implement the "right to be forgotten", while permitting such searches through different indexes.
De-indexing is a directive issued to a private platform that merely removes the concerned name as a searchable retrieval key, thereby restricting easy access through name-based searches.
A bench of justices C Hari Shankar and Vinod Kumar observed that the distinction appeared to be "a bit subjective".
"...We are wondering, what was the purpose of this litigation? What purpose does it serve to go to the court ...
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