Right of Eraser: Top Court asks Registry to examine plea for masking personal details of parties
The petitioner argued her case before the top court while relying on the ‘right to be forgotten’ and ‘right of eraser’ as being right of privacy.
The Supreme Court on Monday called upon its Registry to examine the plea and to work out how the names of both the petitioner and respondent along with address details can be masked so that they do not appear visible for any search engine.
A bench of Justices SK Kaul and MM Sundresh was informed by the petitioner that the display of her name in the public domain with respect to offences committed on the modesty of woman and Sexually Transmitted Disease(STD) has caused immense loss by way of social stigma and infringement of her personal privacy.
She added that even if the name of the respondent appears, it causes the same result.
Pleading the ‘right to be forgotten’ and ‘right of eraser’ being rights of privacy, she sought that her name, as well as the respondent's, be removed/masked along with the address, identification details and case numbers to the extent that the same are not visible for search engines.
Acting on the request so made, the division bench directed the Registry of the Supreme Court to look into the issue.
"The needful be done within three weeks from today by the Registry...", ordered the top court.
Case Title: [Witheld]