On a related note, the question of whether personal details of litigants should be erased from online records in the public domain has arisen before the High Court earlier as well.
Recently, Justice Ramachandran sought the response of the High Court administration, Google, and Indian Kanoon in a plea seeking to mask or remove the personal details of two persons from a judgment uploaded online in a criminal case. In that case, the two petitioners have argued that they have a “right to be forgotten” once they criminal case against them had been closed.
The “right to be forgotten” has also been cited by a rape accused in one case, and by a rape survivor in another case.
While responding to yet another such case before the Kerala High Court, Indian Kanoon had earlier asserted that the right to privacy cannot be extended to protect an individual from publications based on public records, including court orders.
Source: Barandbench
