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Former Supreme Court Justice B.N. Srikrishna says that police must be able to demonstrate the need to gather data without consent and simply saying the purpose is a criminal investigation is not adequate. 

'The future of Indian democracy lies with us and not those who control the media in the country,' said Ashis Nandy as he announced the recipients of the award for the years 2022 and 2021.

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The Editors Guild of India today said it was extremely disturbed by the manner in which the Delhi Police carried out searches and seizures at the homes of the editors of The Wire as well as their office and the newsroom.

Other headlines: Elon Musk said Twitter will charge $8 for blue tick, and journalist bodies criticised Delhi Police raids on ‘The Wire’ editors.

The news website also said that the police did not give the hash value – unique numeric values to identify data – of the devices seized during the searches.

The Delhi Police Crime Branch conducted searches at the residences of 'The Wire' founder Siddharth Varadarajan and Founding Editor MK Venu