: Why several Indians are waging legal battles for ‘the right to be forgotten’ #IndiaNEWS It is more than a decade since Indian actor and reality television star Ashutosh Kaushik was arrested for

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Why several Indians are waging legal battles for ‘the right to be forgotten’ #IndiaNEWS
It is more than a decade since Indian actor and reality television star Ashutosh Kaushik was arrested for drunk driving. Now, he is fighting for the right to put the incident behind him for good.Kaushik filed a petition in the Delhi High Court last year, seeking the removal of about 20 online news reports and video clips of the arrest and other “minor� incidents, highlighting a wider push in India for the legal right to be forgotten online.“My client is being held hostage to minor incidents from more than a decade ago for which he has already paid the price,� said Akshat Bajpai, a lawyer representing Kaushik. “Why must he keep paying the price every time someone googles his name?�Kaushik’s case is among dozens of similar petitions in India seeking to remove information from the internet on the grounds that it is no longer necessary or relevant, pitting privacy rights against freedom of speech and the public interest.“We must balance the right to be forgotten with the right to know. But what great public good is achieved by having a minor private incident surface every time someone searches his name online?� Bajpai told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.In the absence of a law, several local courts have...Read more

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