Sarthak Bhattamishra

Privacy implications in India of the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US

August 12, 2022

June 24, 2022 witnessed perhaps one of the single-most momentous blowbacks to the notion of privacy, the consequence of which would certainly send ripples across the globe both on an ideological and a judicial-legal plane. On this day, the Supreme Court of the United States of America on this day...

I WILL BE WATCHING YOU: DRONE TECH AND ITS LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

September 30, 2021

The wee hours of an otherwise uneventful Sunday of June 27, 2021, witnessed a very novel, never-before-used methodology of conducting activities that are detrimental to the national security of India – two explosive-laden drones, controlled by extremist terrorists, were made to crash into the Indian Air Force station at the...

The illegality in our name

August 17, 2021

Almost three years ago, in the wee hours of the 6th of June, 2018, Rona Wilson & Surendra Gadling, along with three other human rights activists, were booked and arrested under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, or UAPA, as we colloquially call it. The grounds of...

Enemy within: Cryptic case of increasing instances of cyber sabotage in India

August 4, 2021

A fledgling issue of a miscalculated measure but of critical pertinence, the complication of “Cyber-sabotage” is an all-encompassing phrase that refers to state and non-state actors targeting computing systems, often those that govern a nation’s vital infrastructure of critical and strategic importance. Such disruption-tactics can range from causing minimal impediments...