Supreme Court hearing on DPDPA on May 13 2026

Honourable Supreme Court is set to hear the challenge against the constitutionality of DPDPA on May 13 2026.

The Court is hearing five PILs filed in this regard some of which asking for complete scrapping of DPDPA 2023 and DPDPA Rules of November 2025.

FDPPI has requested for intervention to assist the Court to place the views of the practicing  professionals while defending DPDPA 2023.

Naavi.org has discussed the issues in detail in the past.

All these articles can be accessed here.

 

No Date Title
1 Feb 16 DPDPA at the doors of Supreme Court
2 17 Supreme Court refers the DPDPA Challenge to a larger Bench
3 18 The DPDPA Challenge in Supreme Court
4 24 FDPPI would like to facilitate DPDPA petitions in Supreme Court to be cleared at the earliest
5 27 Petitions against DPDPA are “Disproportionate”, Disproportionate” and “Disproportionate”
6 28 Whose Privacy are the Petitioners of DPDPA Challenge Brigade are protecting?
7 28 Public Interest Litigation cannot be discussed without the real public having been given an opportunity to represent
8 28 Nothing is wrong with Section 17(1)(c) and 17(2)
9 March 2 Reporter’s Collective Trust prayer that DPDPA should be scrapped is manifestly arbitrary.
10 2 Are the “Scrap DPDPA Brigade” suggesting introduction of Registration of journalists by Government of India?
11 2 DPDPA and Conformance to Puttaswamy Judgement
12 3 A Review of 10 years of GDPR and it’s impact on India
13 3 DPDPA Exemptions : Don’t Judge by what DPDPA does not do
14 4 Will Supreme Court Scrap DPDPA?
15 5 How the Reporter’s Collective is trying to fool the Supreme Court
16 5 Reporter’s Collective petition. Creative but sinister
17 16 Writ Petition of Geeta Sheshu on DPDPA Challenge
18 24 Update on DPDPA Challenge in Supreme Court
19 April 30 Anatomy of Personal Data
20 May 6 Hearing in Supreme Court on “Scrap DPDPA” demand to resume on 13th May 2026
21 May 7 Privacy Vs Transparency: Realities of Indian’s New Data Law

Petition of Venkatesh Nayak

Petition of Reporter’s Guild

Petition of Geeta Seshu

Intervention Petition of FDPPI

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About Vijayashankar Na

Naavi is a veteran Cyber Law specialist in India and is presently working from Bangalore as an Information Assurance Consultant. Pioneered concepts such as ITA 2008 compliance, Naavi is also the founder of Cyber Law College, a virtual Cyber Law Education institution. He now has been focusing on the projects such as Secure Digital India and Cyber Insurance
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