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Right to Be Forgotten | Petitioner's Identity to Be Masked From Online Court Records: Bombay High Court

15 Jul 2026 3 min read
Right to Be Forgotten | Petitioner's Identity to Be Masked From Online Court Records: Bombay High Court

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court has delivered an important judgment protecting the privacy rights of individuals whose criminal proceedings have already come to an end. In the case of ABC v. State of Maharashtra & Ors., the Court held that once criminal proceedings are quashed and there is no larger public interest involved, a person's identity should not continue to remain available in publicly accessible digital court…

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