The petitions filed on March 12th including the one which has asked for the scrapping of DPDPA and DPDPA Rules came up for hearing on 23rd March 2026 at the Supreme Court. The Union of India which had been asked to file it’s reply sought time to file a reply and a further time of 4 weeks have been granted. Afterwards 2 weeks time have been given for rejoinder affidavits to be filed and the next hearing is fixed for May 13, 2026.
In the meantime the intervention petition filed by FDPPI defending the DPDPA and DPDPA Rules was admitted and will also be heard on the next hearing day.
This petition is numbered IA No.85635/2026 and is being represented by Dr. Mahendra L., Adv., Dr. Tushar Mandlekar, Adv., Mr. Alok Sharma, Adv., Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR and Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv
The copy of the order of the day is available here.
Further updates when available will be posted.
Naavi
